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The Financial Monitoring Agency (FMA) is investigating a case of fraud in the field of illegal investment activities in Almaty. According to the investigation, from 2013 to 2021, citizens were induced to invest under the guise of life insurance. The damage to 270 victims exceeded 620 million tenge.

At the Ministry of Industry and Construction, a board meeting was held under the chairmanship of First Deputy Prime Minister Roman Sklyar to review the results of 2025. The manufacturing industry grew by 6.4%, and 20.1 million square metres of housing were commissioned. A new Construction Code and a Subsoil Code were adopted.

The Department of Trade and Consumer Rights Protection for the West Kazakhstan Region filed a court claim on behalf of 21 consumers who had completed training at an online school for marketplace manager preparation. The court annulled 21 contracts and ordered two individual entrepreneurs to pay 490,000 tenge and 20,000 tenge in moral damages to each consumer. The ruling has not yet entered into legal force.

In the Majilis, deputy Zhanbyrshin criticised representatives of oil companies for purchasing goods from China instead of supporting Kazakhstani manufacturers. Liu Jincheng, CEO of Maten Petroleum JSC, reported six long-term contracts with domestic enterprises but could not name them specifically.

The Central Referendum Commission has presented the parameters for preparing the vote on the draft of the new Constitution. Preliminary costs are estimated at 20.8 billion tenge. A total of 10,413 polling stations will open across the country, with 12,416,759 citizens included on the electoral rolls.