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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.

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.