Kazakh deputy education minister detained on suspicion of budget funds theft
Kazakhstan's Financial Police Agency has detained the Deputy
Minister of Education and Science Sayat Shayakhmetov and General
Director of Management of Education and Science Projects
Construction A. Pak, the press service of the financial police
reported.
Earlier the Financial Police Agency launched a criminal
investigation on the misappropriation of budget funds in the amount
of about $1.5 billion tenge (150.95 tenge = $1) while constructing
an educational facility for 700 pupils in the city of
Ust-Kamenogorsk.
Shayakhmetov and Pak were detained on suspicion of committing the
crime on May 14.
On May 17, Shayakhmetov was placed under house arrest and Pak was arrested with a court approval.
Earlier, the Financial Police Agency arrested former general
director o ZAC Service R. Kireev on charges of involvement in the
crime.
The criminal case is under investigation.
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