AKIPRESS.COM – Two new criminal cases are being investigated against former head of the National Security Committee of Kazakhstan Karim Masimov, the National Security Committee told Kazinform.
“The NSC continues a pre-trial investigation of case against Masimov on legalization, laundering of money and other property obtained by criminal means and receiving a bribe on an especially large scale,” the Committee said.
With the sanction of the prosecutor’s office, Masimov was taken to the pre-trial detention center of the capital’s department of the National Security Committee for investigative actions.
However, the new cases in the Kazinform article were opened back in March 2022, Informburo.kz reports. Then the NSC reported that Karim Masimov received a bribe of $2 million from representatives of a foreign state for a closed contract. These funds were returned from Hong Kong to the National Bank of Kazakhstan. It was also reported that Masimov, while serving as Prime Minister, received an elite guest house and a plot of land in the capital worth about 2.5 billion tenge from one of the business structures.
Source: Akipress
