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7 million stolen by a state institution's accountant and gambled away

Submitted by Вера Александрова on
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The prosecutor's office of the Karatyubinsky district of the West Kazakhstan region uncovered instances of illegal use of a government institution's EDS key. 

According to the department's press service, an accountant, using the manager's EDS key, illegally transferred budget funds to his own account amounting to approximately 7 million tenge

In connection with this, the prosecutor's office initiated a pre-trial investigation under paragraph 1 of part 3 of Article 189 of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Kazakhstan (misappropriation and embezzlement of entrusted property on a large scale). 

It is reported that the defendant only compensated 1 million tenge of the damage. In court, he stated that he spent the stolen funds on online gambling. 

As a result, the Karatyubinsky District Court sentenced the government institution's accountant to 3 years and 6 months of imprisonment

For context, earlier the Aktobe City Court pronounced a sentence on the chief accountant of school-gymnasium No. 55, Bekzat Tazhenov, who lost embezzled state money amounting to more than 413 million tenge on bets.