Ex-director of a plant in Kazakhstan was convicted of a giant bribe

In Petropavlovsk, the previous director of a giant plant was convicted of accepting a bribe within the quantity of 45 million tenge from an entrepreneur, who in flip was launched from prison legal responsibility, Liter.kz stories.

In keeping with the court docket, defendant O. was appointed to the place of Basic Director of the Petropavlovsk Heavy Engineering Plant (PZTM) in February 2021. In the summertime of 2022, the plant acquired an order from the Ministry of Protection for the restore of army tools. As a part of this order, contracts price greater than 283 million tenge have been concluded between PZTM and entrepreneur S.

The defendant O. and government director Okay., performing by means of an middleman, demanded a bribe from the entrepreneur within the quantity of 45 million tenge for basic patronage and execution of contracts. The entrepreneur, fearing obstacles, agreed and transferred the cash by means of the defendant Okay.

Additional, Basic Director O. facilitated the acceptance of low-quality spare elements from the entrepreneur, regardless of their non-compliance with the technical specs. The defendant additionally prolonged the contracts and entered into new ones, regardless of the violation of supply deadlines.

Defendant O. denied his guilt, claiming that he had nothing to do with the conclusion of the contracts. In keeping with his model, government director Okay. acquired the cash and acquired an house and a automobile with these funds. The entrepreneur lent cash on situation of help within the execution of contracts.

Defendant Okay. admitted her guilt, however didn’t agree with the classification of the crime. In keeping with her model, the entrepreneur thanked her after successful the competitors by donating 100 thousand {dollars}.

Entrepreneur S. admitted his guilt and cooperated with regulation enforcement companies.

The court docket sentenced the previous basic director to 11 years in jail, and Okay. to 4 years, each with lifelong deprivation of the precise to public service. As well as, Okay.’s house was confiscated and a part of the bribe was collected from each defendants. The entrepreneur is exempt from prison legal responsibility resulting from his cooperation with regulation enforcement companies.