An education department head has been dismissed in Kazakhstan's Kostanay Region after a prosecutor's review uncovered embezzlement of budget funds and violations of public procurement law, the website infohub.kz reports.
According to the supervisory agency's official website, the review was conducted by the Karabalyk district prosecutor's office. Investigators found that a responsible official failed to record 768,000 tenge, and that school equipment worth 8.7 million tenge was missing, along with 744,000 tenge allocated for its purchase.
A pre-trial investigation was opened under Article 189, Part 2, Paragraph 3 of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Kazakhstan. The damage was fully compensated and the criminal case was closed under an amnesty act.
In addition, goods worth more than 50 million tenge were purchased without competitive procedures, and documents confirming the equipment's compliance and warranty obligations were missing.
Following the prosecutor's review, the head of the education department was removed from office, and seven officials were subjected to disciplinary action.