In Kazakhstan, over five days, police suppressed more than 7,000 violations of migration legislation.
According to Polisia.kz, more than 2,500 foreigners violated the established periods of stay, and 862 were working without permits.
Furthermore, 499 employers hired foreign labour in circumvention of the law, and more than 3,000 host individuals failed to notify the internal affairs bodies of foreign citizens residing with them.
All violators were held accountable. At the same time, 678 foreigners were expelled from the country and banned from entering Kazakhstan for five years.
In addition, police recorded for the first time a case of illegal employment of Egyptian citizens. At a large construction site in Karaganda, 14 citizens of that country were found working without permits.
Also in the Zhambyl district of the Almaty region, employees of the migration service identified 12 citizens of the People's Republic of China who were engaged in the production of illicit alcohol without the required permits.
At the same time, an illegal migration channel organised by three employees of the Public Service Centre (PSC) was uncovered in the Almaty region. It was reported that they were forging documents to legalise labour migrants. Law enforcement officers have opened a criminal case under Article 394 of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Kazakhstan ("Organisation of Illegal Migration").
Recall that earlier the Supreme Audit Chamber (SAC) identified a significant discrepancy between the officially earned and funds transferred abroad by labour migrants. As reported, citizens of three Central Asian countries officially earned 136 billion tenge in Kazakhstan over three years, but at the same time transferred about 1 trillion tenge to their home countries.