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The founder of Telegram, Pavel Durov, has been charged in Russia under an article regarding the facilitation of terrorist activities. Russian law enforcement authorities have also announced that he has been placed on an international wanted list.

Department of the Agency for the Protection and Development of Competition (APDC) for the city of Astana has identified a violation of antitrust legislation in the activities of JSC "Nursultan Nazarbayev International Airport". The court of first instance recognised the results of the investigation as lawful.

The RWB group, which operates the Wildberries marketplace, has begun searching for warehouse facilities in Kazakhstan. According to sources, the company is considering leasing up to 100,000 square metres of warehouse space and is also redistributing goods between logistics facilities following drone attacks on warehouses in Russia.

A Swiss court has fined the private bank Lombard Odier 3 million Swiss francs (approximately $3.68 million) in a case concerning breaches related to anti-money laundering measures. At the same time, the court discontinued proceedings against Gulnara Karimova, the daughter of former President of Uzbekistan Islam Karimov.

Subscribers of Kazakhstani mobile operators can receive advertising messages tailored to their interests, geolocation, estimated income level and other attributes. At the same time, the operators themselves state that they do not transfer clients' personal data to advertisers, but instead use aggregated and anonymised audience segments.

The court in Uralsk partially granted the claim of the deceased patient's son and ordered the hospital to pay 4 million tenge in compensation for moral harm. The court concluded that the untimely provision of medical care led to the loss of a real opportunity to prevent a fatal outcome.

A forest fire that started in the "Semey Ormany" State Forest Nature Reserve on 16 July was fully extinguished on 28 July.

The heavy downpour that occurred on 28 July led to street flooding in Ust-Kamenogorsk. In certain parts of the city, traffic and pedestrian movement were disrupted, and utility services began pumping out the rainwater.

Director of the Electric Power Development Department of the Ministry of Energy, Assylzhan Mussin, stated that per-apartment heat metering is only possible with the consent of all residents of the building. At the same time, he was unable to answer who should bear the cost of installing individual heat meters in houses built before the introduction of current building regulations.

Two investment projects with a total value of over 2.2 billion tenge in Shymkent have continued their implementation following the intervention of the prosecutor's office. The issue related to extending the term of land use has been resolved, allowing construction to proceed without hindrance.