Kazakhstan has completed its first administrative amnesty since independence, initiated by President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev as part of the new Constitution's implementation. Prosecutor General Berik Asylov announced the results of the large-scale action, as reported by infohub.kz.
In just one month, the state fully released 681,700 citizens from administrative penalties across 1.3 million cases. The total amount of fines written off reached 22.8 billion tenge.
The amnesty covered more than 380 articles of the Code of Administrative Offenses. "It included many violations detected by police, tax authorities, environmental agencies, sanitary and epidemiological oversight, and others that do not involve administrative arrest and are not among the exceptions to the amnesty," Asylov said.
A key feature of the amnesty was its full digitalization. According to Asylov, the process was completed in a record time of under a month, without document collection, queues, or bureaucratic red tape. "Thanks to the full digital readiness of the prosecutor's office and the coordinated work of all state bodies, the amnesty was implemented without citizen applications, office visits, document collection, or other bureaucratic procedures. Citizens learned about the termination of their administrative cases via SMS messages," the Prosecutor General reported.
For hundreds of thousands of Kazakh families, the termination of cases meant not only lifting the financial burden but also halting enforcement proceedings, removing court-imposed restrictions, and recovering seized property. As an example, Asylov cited a case in the Zhetysu region where a resident had his car returned. The vehicle had been impounded since the beginning of the year due to accumulated fine debts. The head of the supervisory body emphasized that the prosecutor's office's key priority was strict adherence to the law, ensuring that only those legally entitled to relief received it.