A retired major of the Border Guard Service of the National Security Committee (NSC) of Kazakhstan has filed a lawsuit against the akim of Uralsk and the city's department of housing and communal services, passenger transport and highways, reports infohub.kz.
According to the press service of the West Kazakhstan Regional Court, the specialized inter-district administrative court of the region considered the administrative case on the claim against the akim of Uralsk and the city's department of housing and communal services, passenger transport and highways (HCS, PT and HD) challenging the protocol decision of the housing commission of the Uralsk akimat to refuse the privatization of an apartment.
The court established that the plaintiff is a retired major, a pensioner of the Border Guard Service of the NSC of Kazakhstan. In 2019, by the protocol of the housing commission of military unit 2029 of the Border Guard Service of the NSC of Kazakhstan, the issue of exchanging service housing for pensioners of the unit living in housing not subject to privatization for other housing with the aim of its further privatization was resolved.
By the protocol decision of the housing commission of the Border Guard Service of the NSC of Kazakhstan, the plaintiff and his family members were granted the right to privatize the service apartment at its residual value. The service housing was accepted into municipal ownership and transferred to the balance of the HCS, PT and HD department.
On November 27, 2025, the man applied to the local executive body for the privatization of the apartment. However, by the protocol decision of the housing commission meeting, the privatization of the housing was refused to the plaintiff on the grounds that he "has other housing owned by him on the territory of the Republic of Kazakhstan."
The court, satisfying the claim, concluded that the protocol of the housing commission of the Border Guard Service of the NSC of Kazakhstan of 2019 granted the plaintiff and his family members the right to privatize the service apartment at its residual value. That is, the decision on the privatization by the plaintiff of the provided service housing was made by a proper and authorized body.
In this case, the man and his family were recognized as in need of housing, and a decision was made to privatize the apartment before receiving the property by inheritance, therefore, the protocol decision of the Border Guard Service of the NSC of Kazakhstan of 2019 is subject to execution by concluding a housing privatization agreement. The decision has not entered into legal force.