The former deputy akim of Aktau, Timur Sadvakasov, who was previously detained in Uzbekistan, has been delivered to Kazakhstan.
According to the Agency for Financial Monitoring (AFM), he is suspected of fraud and incitement to give a bribe to officials on an especially large scale.
It has become known that in July last year, Timur Sadvakasov and lawyer Sanat Kurmanbayev offered to resolve the issue of initiating a pre-trial investigation against the business partners of the co-owner of the company “Tioline” Viktor Dolgalev, who is under investigation.
To resolve the matter, the parties agreed on a sum of 225 million tenge. However, after receiving the first part of the bribe in the amount of 90 million tenge, Sadvakasov and Kurmanbayev appropriated the money and did not fulfil the obligations they had undertaken.
Subsequently, the former deputy akim, fearing prosecution, went into hiding from the court. After illegally crossing the border, he was detained by employees of the border service of Uzbekistan, and a criminal case was opened for illegal entry.
“On 25 February this year, at the ‘Kaplanbek’ checkpoint in the Turkestan region, T.Kh. Sadvakasov was handed over to AFM employees, after which he was placed in the pre-trial detention facility in Shymkent. In the near future, he will be transferred to the pre-trial detention facility in Pavlodar,” the statement says.
The case will subsequently be heard in the specialised inter-district court for criminal cases of the Pavlodar region.
Recall that in early February last year, police officers in North Kazakhstan detained one of the co-owners of the company “Tioline” Viktor Dolgalev. He was accused of illegal entrepreneurship and unauthorised subsoil use.
According to the investigation, back in March 2021, the Ministry of Industry and Infrastructure Development prematurely terminated the subsoil use contract for the “Obukhovskoye” deposit due to the violation by the company “Tioline” of its financial obligations amounting to 38 billion tenge. In addition, authorised bodies uncovered instances of tax evasion and non-payment of budget payments totalling around 2 billion tenge.