Group of the Companies TDA, owned by Anipa Nazarbayeva, the younger sister of Nursultan Nazarbayev, has sharply reduced its debt to the state. According to the State Revenue Committee, as of October 1, 2026, it owes the budget 6.84 billion tenge in taxes, customs and other payments, duties, penalties and interest, infohub.kz reports.
For comparison, as of January 1, 2026, the debt stood at 92.3 billion tenge. Thus, since the start of the year, the debt has decreased by 85.5 billion tenge, or 13.5-fold.
By the amount of its debts, Group of the Companies TDA now ranks third among Kazakhstan's largest debtors to the budget. At the beginning of the year, among all Kazakh debtor companies, it was in fourth place by debt amount — as it was on October 1, 2025, when its debt totaled 90.3 billion tenge.
The company is registered in the Nazarbayev family's ancestral village near Almaty — Shamalgan — and was engaged in wholesale trade of various goods. The co-owners of Group of the Companies TDA are Anipa Nazarbayeva and Ali Klyshpayev, who heads the company. Anipa's older brother, Nursultan Nazarbayev, was president of Kazakhstan from December 1991 to March 20, 2019.
The Financial Monitoring Agency (FMA) reported in July 2025 that a guilty verdict had been handed down in Almaty in a criminal case involving the smuggling of goods from China and the issuance of fictitious invoices.
The investigation found that Group of the Companies TDA illegally imported 100 containers of various consumer goods from China. Using 10 affiliated enterprises, it issued fictitious invoices.
The damage to the state from unpaid value-added tax, corporate income tax and customs duties amounted to 10 billion tenge. During the pre-trial investigation, 643 million tenge was recovered. With court approval, goods worth 1.3 billion tenge and property of the suspects worth 300 million tenge (land plots, cars) were also seized.
In addition, 47 counterparty companies voluntarily excluded mutual settlements and paid taxes totaling 240 million tenge. The Almaly District Court of Almaty sentenced the guilty individuals (whose names were not disclosed) to prison terms ranging from 1.4 to 4.6 years with confiscation of property. One participant was placed on the international wanted list.