A man born in 1991 drove while intoxicated in Kokshetau, explaining that he had no money for a taxi, the website infohub.kz reports.
According to the press service of the Akmola Region Police Department, the incident occurred on October 28 at around 03:20. The driver of a Toyota Mark II caught the attention of video surveillance cameras at the Operations Control Center while in the parking lot of the Yevraziya entertainment complex on Auyelbekov Street in Kokshetau.
Footage showed the man drinking alcohol next to the car before getting behind the wheel and driving off.
Thanks to the prompt response of Operations Control Center officers, the information was immediately relayed to a patrol police battalion crew. In a coordinated operation, officers stopped the vehicle at the intersection of Auyelbekov and Birzhan Sal streets.
The driver was taken for a medical examination, which confirmed that he was intoxicated.
The man himself said he had decided to drive because he did not have the money for a taxi.
The car was placed in a specialized impound lot. An administrative protocol was drawn up against the driver under Article 608, Part 1 of the Code of the Republic of Kazakhstan on Administrative Offenses.
By court decision, the man was placed under administrative arrest for 15 days and stripped of his driving license for 7 years.