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A resident of the Zhaksyn district in the Akmola region is suspected of cruelty to an animal after a dog died in a fellow villager's yard. According to police, the animal died after being struck.

The suspect in the case of creating and leading a structural unit of the financial pyramid "World Business Consulting" has been extradited to Kazakhstan from Georgia. The criminal case has been sent to court, and the suspect's land plot has been seized.

The Ministry of Justice of Kazakhstan stated that the decision of the Kazakhstani court regarding the recovery of an environmental fine from the North Caspian Operating Company (NCOC) is subject to voluntary compliance until 20 July 2026. The department also reported that the interim protective measure of the UNCITRAL commercial arbitration does not have automatic legal force within the country's territory.

Companies that have been associated with the family of Kazakhstan’s first President, Nursultan Nazarbayev, at various times owe more than 30 billion tenge in customs payments and related charges. They feature in a list of the largest debtors published by the State Revenue Committee (SRC), which as of 1 July 2026 includes nearly 1,500 legal entities with a total debt of around 114 billion tenge.

On 1 July, the Head of State signed the Law on Amnesty, timed to coincide with the adoption of the new Constitution. For the first time in the history of independent Kazakhstan, an administrative amnesty was carried out, affecting around 590,000 people.

In the Akmola region, police stopped a vehicle transporting over 800 litres of herbicides without documents confirming the legality of the transport or the origin of the cargo. An investigation is underway, and based on its results, a procedural decision will be made.

A forest fire has once again occurred on the territory of the state forest nature reserve "Semey Ormany" in the Borodulikha district of the Abai region. More than 250 people, aircraft, and dozens of pieces of equipment have been deployed to extinguish it, and 190 children have been evacuated from the nearby children's camp "DosbolLike".

Two elderly people were injured after a pyrotechnic device was set off in a branch of Halyk Bank in Pavlodar. According to the police, the pensioners followed the instructions of telephone scammers, who persuaded them to ignite a firecracker placed inside a cake.

The UK Crown Prosecution Service has frozen an elite mansion in the Highgate area of London, valued at $32.7 million. The property belongs to Yu Cong, a Chinese-born individual with Cambodian citizenship. The restrictive measures have been imposed due to suspicion that the property was purchased with funds of illegal origin. However, no criminal charges have been brought against the owner in the United Kingdom.

In the Baikonyr district of Astana, there was an explosion of a gas-air mixture in a tandoori samsa preparation room located on the market grounds. Four people were injured in the incident, including one child, with no fatalities.