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Almaty cafés and shashlik vendors reminded of ban on charcoal grills in residential buildings

Submitted by Aisulu Muratqyzy on
Almaty café and shashlik restaurant owners reminded of ban on charcoal mangals and tandoors in residential buildings. One establishment was fined, and since the start of the year fines totalling 1.2 million tenge have been issued across the city for breac

Two former deputy ministers and head of first credit bureau handed sentences in bribery case

Submitted by Aisulu Muratqyzy on
Almaly District Court in Almaty on 11 November sentenced five defendants in the case concerning cooperation between the Human Resources Development Centre (HRDC) and the First Credit Bureau (FCB). The convicted received between 2 and 7 years 6 months in p

Kcell recovered 7.7 million tenge from entrepreneur's company using documents with forged signatures and seal

Submitted by Nuray K. on
In June 2024, a 12-iPhone instalment plan worth 7.7 million tenge was taken out in the name of TehnoProm Trade LLP. Director Nurgali Mushkin denied signing the documents. An initial forensic examination linked the impressions to the company seal, while a

What questions about veterinary medicine were prepared for the Vice-Minister of Agriculture of Kazakhstan?

Submitted by Вера Александрова on
Staff at the committee for veterinary control and supervision of the ministry of agriculture were tasked overnight with preparing answers to pressing questions for the vice-minister. The list included the detentions of veterinary inspection staff in Shymkent and the West Kazakhstan region, inspectors' complaints about cut salaries and Russian restrictions on Kazakh ice cream. The messages with the questions were later deleted from the work chat.

How a dispute about Kostanay breed horses was turned into a defamation case

Submitted by Вера Александрова on
The police of Kostanay region accused the head of LLP "Qazaq Tulpary" of slander against the head of the peasant farm "Barys". The reason was the first publication of the FBIK, which was based on a post by a civil activist. The case reached court and was terminated, and it was the prosecutor himself who asked for it to be terminated.

16 years for painkillers: why a Kazakh in a Georgian prison was left almost alone with his misfortune

Submitted by Вера Александрова on
A long-distance lorry driver from Shchuchinsk, Ivan Chekulaev, has received 16 years' imprisonment in Georgia for 56 tilidine tablets, a painkiller prescribed to him by German doctors. The verdict has not yet entered into force. But even now this story raises a broader question than a single criminal case: what the Kazakh state actually does for its citizens when they end up on trial abroad.

Court hearing on the Barayev Centre's lawsuit against the FBRK: more questions than answers

Submitted by Вера Александрова on
The Inter-District Civil Court of the City of Astana, in the person of Judge Doszhan Dzhumayev, has partially upheld the claim of Bauyrzhan Kalibayev, Director of the A.I. Barayev Research and Production Centre for Grain Farming, against Kirill Pavlov, founder of the FBPC, and Gulnar Kabdina, Chief Accountant of the Centre. We are examining what this decision rests on, since the questions it raises have turned out to be no fewer than those raised by the expert examination on which it is based.
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