Kazakhstan's Committee of the Penal Enforcement System has officially denied reports circulating in some media outlets that Yermek Shurmanov, head of the republican state enterprise Yenbек, which is subordinate to the Ministry of Internal Affairs, had been detained. The news was reported by infohub.kz.
According to the committee's press service, several media outlets published inaccurate information about the detention of the leadership of the Yenbек state enterprise. The committee stressed that the reports are untrue.
The press service explained that the Interior Ministry's Internal Security Department, together with the Anti-Corruption Service of the National Security Committee, conducted operational measures. As a result, they identified unlawful activity by one of the managers of the unit responsible for catering at the Yenbек state enterprise.
"We emphasize that this concerns one of the structural units, not the leadership of the enterprise," the official statement said.
The Committee of the Penal Enforcement System said the information about the detention of the Yenbек state enterprise's general director is untrue. It urged media representatives not to mislead the public, including by publishing photographs of people unrelated to the events in question.
The committee also recalled that the law provides for criminal liability for spreading knowingly false information.
According to the Interior Ministry's website Polisia.kz, Yermek Shurmanov is the head of the republican state enterprise Yenbек, which is subordinate to the Ministry of Internal Affairs.