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The Department of the Financial Monitoring Agency (FMA) in Almaty has shut down the activities of a group involved in the illegal trafficking of electronic nicotine consumption systems (vapes), flavourings, and liquids for them.

From the beginning of the year, over 200 entrepreneurs in Shymkent have been held accountable for unjustified price increases on socially significant food products (SSFPs). According to the city's agriculture department, 15 of them were fined for overpricing meat.

31 July The Judicial Jury under the Supreme Court of the Republic of Kazakhstan will review materials concerning the chairman of the inter-district criminal court of Astana, Kazhymukan Mekemtas. He is suspected of sending a forged letter in the name of judge Aisulu Slambekova, which has become the subject of a pre-trial investigation and an internal review.

Committee of Internal State Audit (CISA) of the Ministry of Finance has summed up the results of work for six months.

In the town of Priozersk, Karaganda Region, plans are underway to commission a sewage treatment plant, construction of which began as far back as 2014. The facility is intended to resolve the long-standing environmental problem of the town, where up to 7,000 cubic metres of wastewater are generated every day.