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Aisultan Seipelov, the son of the Minister of Agriculture Aydarbek Saparov, has been appointed deputy akim of the Shortandy District at the age of 30. The akimat stated that it was unaware of his relation to the minister. In 2011, the media, citing unofficial sources, reported that a teenager with the same name and year of birth was a suspect in a robbery case in Petropavlovsk.

In 2022, individual entrepreneur Salamat Kabidayev organised an international event in Turkestan on the basis of a guarantee letter from the Ministry of Ecology worth 22.779 million tenge. Payment was not made. Three judicial instances refused to satisfy his claim, ruling that the guarantee letter did not replace a public procurement contract.

Public statements by former ORDA editor-in-chief Gulnar Bazhkenova have repeatedly become the subject of public debate. Following the start of criminal proceedings, attention was also drawn to discrepancies in her explanations of the same circumstances. FBK has compared court materials, publications, and public statements.

Aisultan Seipelov has been appointed deputy akim of the Shortandy district in the Akmola region. Previously, he worked as a chief specialist at the regional akimat for agriculture and state agro-industrial programmes. His father is Aidarbek Saparov, the current Minister of Agriculture of Kazakhstan.

The National Bureau of Statistics has published producer price indices for June 2026. In industry, prices rose by 17.2% year-on-year, in agriculture by 16.6%, in wholesale trade by 13.8%, and in construction by 9.2%. The main contributors to the increase were oil extraction and metallurgy.