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The Ministry of Artificial Intelligence and Digital Development has commented on the circulating information about the sale on the darknet of a database containing personal data of Kazakhstani citizens. The department stated that there is as yet no confirmed data regarding a breach of e-government information systems or the acquisition of the database directly from eGov.

A darknet forum user under the handle shymzz13 has put up for sale a database which, according to their claim, contains the personal data of 15 million residents of Kazakhstan. The seller stated that they obtained the information after breaching the state service eGov.

A citizen of Kazakhstan has been extradited from Vietnam to face criminal prosecution for causing grievous bodily harm. The suspect is currently held in a pre-trial detention centre.

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.

At the Bostandyk District Court No. 2 in Almaty, on 11 August 2026, the hearing of the criminal case against former ORDA editor-in-chief Gulnar Bazhkenova continued. In the morning, she did not appear at the session, after which the court ordered her to be brought before it by force.

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 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 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.

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 owner of the RIXOS LAKE BOROVOE hotel and the organisation that launched pyrotechnic devices on the territory adjacent to the State National Natural Park (SNNP) “Burabay” have been brought to administrative responsibility. The fireworks were set off during the fire-hazard period and in windy weather.