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A transfer of 10 thousand tenge turned into a prison sentence for a resident of Kostanay region.

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A resident of the Beimbet Mailin district of Kostanay region handed over her bank account for 10,000 tenge. The account was used in a criminal scheme, after which the court found the woman guilty and sentenced her to 1 year of restricted freedom.

The bulk of the funds for the transition of the Kazakh language to the Latin script were returned to the budget.

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The bulk of the funds allocated for transitioning the Kazakh alphabet to the Latin script was returned to the budget due to changes in work plans. The full switch to the Latin alphabet will only begin after the new alphabet and spelling rules are approved.

Kazakhstanis have been proposed to be exempted from individual income tax when writing off bad debts

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In Kazakhstan, it has been proposed to fully exempt from individual income tax (IIT) citizens whose bad loans have been written off by banks due to fraud or difficult life circumstances. The initiative was discussed at a meeting of the Project Office for the implementation of the Tax Code, chaired by Deputy Prime Minister – Minister of National Economy Serik Zhumangarin.

The Agency for the Protection and Development of Competition has identified that Kinopark has been imposing advertising worth tens of millions of tenge.

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Kazakhstan's largest cinema chain, Kinopark, has stopped charging mandatory fees for film promotional advertising following intervention by the Agency for the Protection and Development of Competition (APDC). The cost of promotion ranged from 20 to 60 million tenge.

A teacher from Atyrau has claimed she was forced to do repairs at the school.

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A teacher at a state school in Atyrau has said that she was forced to carry out repairs to her classroom, do cleaning, and perform other maintenance work. According to the teacher, she completed some of these tasks herself because she wanted to get the classroom in order for her pupils.

KazMunayGas has invested nearly a trillion tenge in Samruk-Kazyna bonds.

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«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.

Who is to blame for the fish deaths on Lake Aidabol in the Zerenda district?

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At Lake Aidabol in the Zerenda district of the Akmola region, a mass fish die-off has been recorded. Specialists from the Yesil interregional basin fisheries inspection, the veterinary service, and the ecology department of the Akmola region have taken water samples and fish specimens for laboratory analysis. The causes of the die-off will be known after the tests.

The story with the Barayev Centre is repeating itself within the NANOC system.

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Ministry of Agriculture has confirmed the export of grain under fictitious transactions and illegal bonus payments from the budget at the Karaganda Agricultural Experimental Station, subordinate to NANOC. This is the second episode of violations in the holding's structures in recent months — following publications about the Barayev Centre, over which the Bureau of Corruption Prevention received a pre-trial claim from its management.

The authorities of Aktobe have still not assessed the impact of the quarries on the Ilek.

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Two specialised departments of the Aktobe region responded to the FBK’s enquiry about quarries in the Ilek river floodplain. A comprehensive assessment of the impact of sand extraction on the river’s hydrological regime has not been carried out, and the question of conducting such an assessment is only being considered by the regional akimat.

The case of Asem Shabelskaya in Shchuchinsk: why relatives are demanding a reclassification of the charges

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In Shchuchinsk, 36-year-old Asem Shabelskaya has died. A criminal case is being investigated under the article on intentional infliction of grievous bodily harm resulting in death. However, the victim's relatives strongly disagree with this, demanding that the suspect be tried for murder.

FAO acknowledges the threat of a new foot-and-mouth disease strain in Asia

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The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations has reported the spread of a new serotype of the foot-and-mouth disease virus, SAT1, in East Asia, following official notifications from China and Mongolia. The organisation has allocated $400,000 for emergency support to seven countries in the region.
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