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A suspect in tax evasion has been returned to Kazakhstan from South Korea.

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The Financial Monitoring Agency (FMA), with the assistance of Interpol from the Republic of Korea, has returned Ulan Baibolov to Kazakhstan, who had previously been placed on the international wanted list. According to the investigation, he was a member of an organised criminal group (OCG) whose activities were linked to the systematic evasion of taxes and other mandatory payments to the budget.

The Ministry of Internal Affairs' CPI announced procurements worth 24 billion tenge for document production.

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The Information and Production Centre of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (IPC MIA) has announced procurements related to the production of documents totalling more than 24 billion tenge since the beginning of 2026. Among the materials are chip modules, polycarbonate, document paper, fluorescent thread and other components for passports and identity cards.

Three suspects have been detained in connection with the deaths of six workers in the Pavlodar region.

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Three suspects have been detained and placed in a temporary detention centre (TDC) as part of the criminal case into the deaths of six workers during work in a sewer manhole on the territory of an enterprise in the village of Zholaman, Aktogay district, Pavlodar region.

The prosecutor requested a life sentence for the defendant in the case of the murder of Nurai Serikbai.

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The prosecutor asked the court to sentence Sherkhan Aymakhan to life imprisonment in the case of the murder of 21-year-old Nuray Serikbay in Shymkent. Court debates in the case began after the completion of the main part of the proceedings.

A combine harvester worth 100 million tenge caught fire on the first day of harvesting in Kostanay Region.

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On 10 August, in the fields of Kaisar-Agro LLP in the village of Novonezhinka, Auliekol district, Kostanay region, a combine harvester caught fire. The blaze occurred on the first day of the harvest campaign, and the value of the machinery is around 100 million tenge.

The account of the director of the "Legal Media Centre" was blocked after a publication about the court case with the Ministry of Culture.

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Facebook has suspended access to the account of Diana Okremova, director of the public foundation 'Legal Media Centre', following a post about court proceedings with the Ministry of Culture and Information. The platform cited infringement of third-party copyright and violation of its user agreement on intellectual property as the formal grounds.

A petrol station cashier in Aktobe has been sentenced to 7.5 years for embezzlement causing damages of 258 million tenge.

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Court No. 2 of Aktobe has found former cashier-operator of LLP "AZS Leader" Zulkhumor Muratshina guilty of embezzlement or misappropriation of entrusted property on an especially large scale. The court sentenced her to 7.5 years' imprisonment.

«Отбасы банк» recorded an increase in mortgage applications after the rise in pension thresholds

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Raising the thresholds for minimum sufficiency of pension savings has not reduced the inflow of funds into Otbasy Bank. Since the beginning of 2026, the volume of savings has reached 800 billion tenge, and the rate of deposit growth has exceeded 20% compared with 2025.

Who is destroying Kazakhstan's last riding breed, and why?

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The tribal stock of the Kostanay breed in the LLP «Қазақ Тұлпары» has fallen to fewer than 100 head. According to the head of the enterprise, the sole investor, the farm enterprise «Барыс», abandoned the care of the horses without warning, leaving the herd without maintenance.

The elevator "Ilyichevka Astyk" in the North Kazakhstan Region once again locks up someone else's harvest.

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From the warehouse of the LLP "Ilyichevka Astyk", three companies were unable to receive their sunflower seeds - approximately 3.3 tonnes. Courts in two regions have already placed a seizure on the goods and property of the defendant. And this is far from the first such dispute. In 2022, 456 million tenge in damages were already recovered from the elevator.

Only about 1% of personal data protection complaints reach court each year.

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After registering an LLP in Kazakhstan, entrepreneurs receive calls from private companies claiming to represent state agencies, including the Ministry of Emergency Situations. The editorial board of FBRK sent a request to the ministry and received a rather evasive response. Meanwhile, at an SCC briefing, representatives of the Ministry of Digital Development, Innovations and Aerospace Industry reported that they receive 9,000 requests annually regarding personal data protection, yet only 180 cases have reached court over the past two years.

The sentence for sodomy is being appealed due to questions over the evidence in Pavlodar region.

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The sister of one of the men convicted of violent sodomy and sentenced to 8 years in prison has contacted the FBRK editorial office. She claims that her brother is innocent, and that the case is based on police pressure and weak evidence.

The Ministry of Ecology recognised the holding of the international conference outside the procurement plan.

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The Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources reported that the anniversary meeting of the Interstate Coordination Water Management Commission was not included in the action plan which formed part of the tender documentation. New responses from the departments were received by the FBI after an appeal to the Presidential Administration regarding the case of Salamat Kabidayev, who has been unsuccessfully seeking payment for organising an international conference for almost four years.
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