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A resident of Astana organised a financial pyramid that operated from 2023 to 2025. More than 6,200 people were involved in it, and the organiser's income amounted to 337 million tenge.

A court in China will hear the case of Kazakh writer and satirist Zhenis Yryskanuly behind closed doors. According to his son, the writer has been charged with “undermining ethnic unity,” but the family has not seen the indictment or other court documents.

«KazMunayGas» (KMG) acquired bonds of its main shareholder, the Samruk-Kazyna fund, worth KZT 951.6 billion, or about $2 billion, in the first half of 2026. Against the backdrop of the deal, the volume of loans and other debt owed to KMG by related parties grew from KZT 59.6 billion to KZT 998.2 billion.

11 August 2026, a fatal road accident occurred in the Enbekshikazakh district of the Almaty region involving an employee of the "Government for Citizens" branch, who was behind the wheel of a service vehicle. A pedestrian, a 77-year-old woman, died after being struck.

The Ministry for Emergency Situations (MES) of Kazakhstan has filed a lawsuit demanding compensation from the insurance company 'Eurasia' for a crashed MI-8 helicopter. The claim amount is approximately 8 billion tenge and has become a point of dispute between the parties.

On 18 August, the court passed a guilty verdict on the former editor-in-chief of ORDA, Gulnar Bazhkenova. She was sentenced to 8 years' imprisonment, with the execution of the sentence deferred for 2 years.

A resident of the town of Atbasar in the Akmola region has stated that after being diagnosed with an ectopic pregnancy, her right fallopian tube was removed, yet roughly a month later it emerged that the pregnancy was actually intrauterine and had continued. She is now almost nine months pregnant.

The Ministry of Science and Higher Education has initiated an inspection of the development of the educational game Steppe Rider, for which 239 million 888 thousand tenge were allocated from the budget. The inspection is being carried out by the National Security Committee (NSC) and the Department of Economic Investigations (DEI) for Astana.

Patients of the Republican Psychiatric Hospital of a specialised type with intensive observation (RPB STIN) in the village of Aktas, Almaty Region, have alleged cruel treatment, forced labour, and the use of medication as punishment. At the same time, an official inspection, which concluded on 7 August 2026, did not confirm the previously reported accusations.

In the first half of 2026, 2.3 million children underwent preventive medical check-ups. Various diseases were detected in 242,000 children, or 11% of those examined, with the most common being caries, anaemia and myopia.