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On September 7, with a court order the head of energy and housing and public utilities of Atyrau region Baurzhan Dzhaysanov is placed under house arrest. On September 12 on suspicion of involvement in the commission of these crimes former deputy Akim of Atyrau region B. Daukenov and Head of Finance of D. Dzhantemirov were detained.
Atyrau. September 14. Kazakhstan Today - Akimat officials in Atyrau arrested on charges of embezzlement billions of tenge, Kazakhstan Today reports.
"On September 7, with a court order the head of energy and housing and public utilities of Atyrau region Baurzhan Dzhaysanov is placed under house arrest. On September 12 on suspicion of involvement in the commission of these crimes former deputy Akim of Atyrau region B. Daukenov and Head of Finance of D. Dzhantemirov were detained," the press service of Financal Police of Kazakhstan informed.
According to the press service, "on the abuse of power by officials of Akimat of Atyrau region in the decision on the privatization of communal property and their selling at a lower cost. Also criminal cases on embezzlement of budget funds in the total amount of 6.3 billion tenge allocated for the construction of a gas pipeline in Kyzylkuginsky rayon of Atyrau region and a group water pipeline Atyrau - Dossor are being investigated".
"Also, on September 6 this year, investigative team of the Agency initiated criminal cases on embezzlement of budget funds in the amount of 177.5 million tenge allocated for the construction of credit housing for workers of schools and hospitals in Atyrau, as well as on the potential abuse of power through illegal privatization of decommissioned water lines Guriev - Makat, administrative building and grounds of the "Atyrau Akparat" public utility company, pipelines and facilities and other property of the "OblTransGaz" public utility company with causing damage to the state in excess of seven billion tenge".
In addition, on September 13 opened a criminal investigation into embezzlement of budget funds in the amount of 111.8 million tenge allocated for the construction of the landfill for the disposal of solid waste in the city of Atyrau.
The cases are under investigation, other information in the interests of the investigation were not disclosed.
We recall that on August 15, the head of the State introduced a new Akim of Atyrau region, Baktykozha Izmukhambetov.
On August 16 newspaper "Kazakhstanskaya Pravda" reported that "by the presidential decree Ryskaliyev Bergey Saulebayevich was dismissed Akim of Atyrau region due to health reasons".
Today information sources reported that Bergey Ryskaliyev left Kazakhstan.
Meanwhile, earlier local newspaper "Ak Zhayik" referring to a source in one of the law enforcement agencies reported that the ex-Akim Bergey Ryskaliyev is under house arrest.
According to the edition, the Ryskalievs brothers - Bergen and Amanzhan (named Akaman) were involved in about 70 refusal cases. A large number of facts about the business raider attacks, illegal land weaning, of the practice of 40% kickbacks in any tenders, burnings by order, beatings and killings were revealed. Victims wrote in statements that people of Akaman killed their son, and prosecutors wrote "Absence of crime" under various pretexts. And they refused to open a case", the source told the newspaper.
According to the source, people wrote complaints and requests to prosecutor's office and the police, "Nur Otan" party, the Presidential Administration, Prosecutor General.
According to him, "all heads of security structures were clearly implicated in these matters: the financial police, the judiciary, tax, prosecutors, DIA, and NSC Department had kind of neutrality". "Now there is a question of changing the heads of all these departments. As you know, the chief of DIA Rahmadzhan Dosanov was dismissed, the others will follow him. Also some staff workers of "Nur Otan" party knew the situation but kept silence. All who worked with Bergei will be fired. As a rule, brothers did not put their signatures in almost all tender documents, they were signed by Ryskaliev's Deputies," the source said.
The source also said that the basic information on schemes of budget money allocation was provided by Salimzhan Nakpaev (former Akim and deputy Akim of Atyrau region). He told how the money were laundered for a few years through such companies as "Atyraubalyk" and "Balik Zhaiyk", details of tenders and kickbacks.
The source said that "now all the accounts of dozens cash-out companies, registered by people close to Bergey are arrested. All who work for him are disappearing. Stream of emails from people affected is growing, but they are almost all anonymous, people are afraid of revenge, it will be very difficult to understand - where there is true or not," he said.
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