Kasem-Jomart Tokayev is determined to break the back of corruption.
The Kazakh media reported the arrest of the leaders of the Samruk-Kazina Foundation and the Tamir Joly company in Kazakhstan.
In this context, the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan Kasem-Jomart Tokayev made a statement at an operational meeting of the Security Council, in which he assessed the incident as "a very serious signal about the presence of large-scale corruption in state-owned companies."
Samrok-Casina Fund manages the country's strategic assets, carries out large-scale investment projects and interacts with large foreign companies and international financial institutions.
The head of state cited data indicating an increase in the fight against corruption. Only in the period between 2023 and 2025, 3,168 corruption offenses were detected, of which 2,165 were committed by civil servants, and the rest by other people, including employees of the quasi-public sector. The total amount is more than 248 billion tenge.