In Shymkent, the National Security Committee (KNB) has initiated a pre-trial investigation after messages appeared online about the possible detention of an employee of the city's economic investigations department. The security service confirmed the fact of the investigation itself, but procedural details and the circumstances of the case are not being disclosed for now.
INFORMATION ABOUT THE DETENTION
Messages about the possible detention appeared on 2 March on social networks. Users published a photograph showing a man being held by security service officers near a car on the roadside.
The authors of the posts suggested that officers from the KNB's anti-corruption service had detained an employee of the city's economic investigations department in Shymkent. According to them, it may have involved suspicion of receiving a bribe of around 300,000 tenge.
However, no official confirmation of the alleged bribe amount or the circumstances of the money transfer was provided in the posts.
WHAT THE DEPARTMENT SAID
The editorial board of Kazinform sent an official request to the National Security Committee of the Republic of Kazakhstan (KNB) asking them to confirm the detention of the DER employee, as well as to clarify the procedural status of the person involved and the details of the case.
In the response, the security services only confirmed the fact of the investigation itself.
"A pre-trial investigation is being conducted. Other information is not subject to disclosure in accordance with Part 1 of Article 201 of the Criminal Procedure Code of the Republic of Kazakhstan," the KNB reported.
Earlier, it became known that a prosecutor's office employee was detained in Aktobe on suspicion of receiving money to drop a criminal case.
The operation was carried out by officers of the KNB anti-corruption service jointly with the Internal Security Department of the Prosecutor General's Office. The amount of the alleged sum has not been officially disclosed, and a pre-trial investigation has been initiated.