Former police chief of the Markakol district of the East Kazakhstan Region sentenced to four years for a 1 million tenge bribe
The appellate board upheld the sentence of the former head of the police department of the Markakol district of the East Kazakhstan region (EKR), Ruslan Seitkanov. He was found guilty of receiving 1 million tenge for general patronage of illegal exploration and extraction of gold. The court sentenced him to four years' imprisonment.