In Kazakhstan, a case of food theft in colonies is being investigated.
The anti-corruption service of the National Security Committee of Kazakhstan detained the leadership of the state enterprise Anbak under the Ministry of Interior - the manager Armak Shurmanov and the head of the nutrition department Forkat Khudaibarganov, who are responsible for supplying food to prisoners in the country's correctional institutions.
According to anti-corruption fighters, officials profited from the prisoners' rations and embezzled public funds. The attention of the security authorities was drawn by a stream of complaints from prison colonies. The audit showed that Anbek RSE officials had constructed a dubious scheme, concentrating billions of dollars in food supplies in the hands of one company, leading to an artificial monopoly, acute shortages and the supply of rotten products.
Currently, the suspects have been arrested, and the exact amount of the stolen budget funds has been determined.
Observers write that the arrest of officials from the Ministry of the Interior is a serious blow to the reputation of the Ministry of the Interior and its head, Yerzhan Sadanov.
"The expropriation of budget funds allocated for the maintenance of these defenseless and feeding them with a low-quality surrogate, fueled the already difficult situation in the colonies, and created a direct threat of demonstrations and riots. The fact that the problem was revealed not by the security service of the Ministry of the Interior itself, but by a special unit of the National Security Committee that deserves an eloquent examination by the National Security Committee. of the police, the fact that members of the system committed such an open robbery sets the agenda, including the issue of the personal responsibility of the leadership of the office," writes Artan Media.