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Facebook has suspended access to the account of Diana Okremova, director of the public foundation 'Legal Media Centre', following a post about court proceedings with the Ministry of Culture and Information. The platform cited infringement of third-party copyright and violation of its user agreement on intellectual property as the formal grounds.

Court No. 2 of Aktobe has found former cashier-operator of LLP "AZS Leader" Zulkhumor Muratshina guilty of embezzlement or misappropriation of entrusted property on an especially large scale. The court sentenced her to 7.5 years' imprisonment.

Raising the thresholds for minimum sufficiency of pension savings has not reduced the inflow of funds into Otbasy Bank. Since the beginning of 2026, the volume of savings has reached 800 billion tenge, and the rate of deposit growth has exceeded 20% compared with 2025.

On the Astana – Petropavlovsk highway in the Akmola region, there was a road traffic accident involving a Mercedes-Benz Sprinter and a GAZ-53. As a result of the crash, one person died and another 8 people were injured.

In the Akmola region, a driver of a sightseeing electric bus was detained after a medical examination confirmed he was in a state of moderate alcohol intoxication. There were five passengers in the vehicle's cabin.

The Court of Cassation amended the sentence against three residents of Atyrau region found guilty of using violence against representatives of authority. Instead of restriction of liberty, they were sentenced to imprisonment.

From 1 to 10 August, 70 attempts to transport undeclared currency were recorded at checkpoints across the state border of Kazakhstan. The total amount of funds discovered exceeded 645 million tenge.

In Almaty and the Almaty region, police officers disrupted drug distribution channels. In Almaty, a 33-year-old man was detained, and in the Almaty region, a stash of 2 kg of mephedrone was found.

Over seven months of 2026, 44,954,050 vehicle passages were recorded on the toll sections of Kazakhstan’s republican highways. The busiest section was Almaty – Konayev, where more than 7.1 million passages were registered.