A criminal case involving the illegal transfer of pension savings totaling more than 16 million tenge has been heard by the Mendykara District Court in Kazakhstan's Kostanay Region, according to infohub.kz.
According to the official Telegram channel of the Kostanay Region courts, the defendant was accused of illegally executing money transfers using a payment instrument in favor of third parties for material remuneration, committed on a large scale (Part 6 of Article 232-1 of the Criminal Code).
The court established that between November 2025 and January 2026, the defendant, knowing that an individual entrepreneur lacked the required license for medical activities, organized monetary operations related to the receipt of unified pension payments from a bank.
The medical services specified in contracts concluded with pension recipients were never actually provided. The funds were credited to the individual entrepreneur's bank accounts and then, via a payment instrument, transferred back to the recipients or to other persons using the bank details they provided.
In this way, the woman received material remuneration for executing such transfers. The total amount of illegally executed transfers exceeded 16 million tenge, which, according to the charges and the circumstances established by the court, constitutes a large scale.
The defendant fully admitted her guilt. In imposing the sentence, the court considered as circumstances mitigating criminal liability and punishment the full admission of guilt, sincere remorse for the deed, the presence of minor children, and a voluntary confession. No aggravating circumstances were established in the case.
Taking into account the defendant's personality, all circumstances of the case, and the requirements of Part 2 of Article 55 of the Criminal Code, the court sentenced the woman to 2 years of restriction of freedom. Due to the presence of minor children and on the basis of Part 1 of Article 74 of the Criminal Code, the execution of the sentence was deferred for 5 years.
The convicted woman was also ordered to pay 16,432,000 tenge in illegally obtained income to the state. The verdict has not yet entered into legal force.