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Four completed wastewater disposal facilities with a total value of 10.5 billion tenge have been transferred to the balance sheet of operating organisations in Astana. The decision was taken on the instruction of the Supreme Audit Chamber (SAC).

The Regional Department of Natural Resources has announced a tender for services to regulate the population of the great cormorant. For the physical elimination of 14,876 birds on the region's water bodies, the budget is prepared to allocate 44 million tenge.

A court in Astana found four employees of International Invest Company IIC LLP guilty in the case of the illegal sale of properties in the Qyran residential complex and sentenced them to between 8 and 9 years' imprisonment.

A group of landowners in Almaty has sent a collective appeal to the President of Kazakhstan. The petitioners ask to stop the practice of recovering from them the cadastral value of land and losses of agricultural production – payments that began to be demanded years after the plots were officially transferred from the category of “personal subsidiary farming” to “individual housing construction.”

In the Zhetysu region, video footage has been released showing cement truck drivers bypassing weight control checkpoints. Against this backdrop, JSC "NC "KazAvtoZhol" has explained in detail the damage overloaded lorries cause to roads. However, the focus has fallen on another question — why vehicles are able to circumvent a system that was created precisely to detect overloading.

The Ministry of Health has completed inspections of 82 of 84 maternity care organisations in Kazakhstan. Violations of the disinfection and sterilisation regime were identified in 29 medical organisations.

Volunteers and young people from Atyrau cleaned up a natural area where lotuses grow, and learned about their biological characteristics and significance for the ecosystem. The event took place as part of the nationwide programme "Taza Kazakhstan".

The difficult fire situation persists in Kostanay Region. In the Denisov district, 11 fires were registered in a single day.

The US has expanded its sanctions restrictions against Iran, including a company from Kazakhstan in the materials relating to the new measures. Tour Invest LLC, linked to the sale of services for the Iranian airline Mahan Air, has come under the scrutiny of the US Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC).

Kazakhstan continues its course of reducing the state’s presence in the economy. Under the programme running to 2030, 475 enterprises with state participation are to undergo privatisation, merger or liquidation.