Kazakhstanskaya Mine Incident: Defendants Sentenced

The trial for the miners' death case began on June 21, 2024, and was presided over by Judge Islamkhan Yesenbayev. By September 2024, 35 hearings had already been held.

On August 17, 2023, around 10 AM, a fire broke out at the mine. At the time of the fire, 227 people were inside. 222 people were brought to the surface, and by August 19, the bodies of five miners were found.

Four employees of the Kazakhstanskaya mine were in the dock — the deputy director of production services, the head of the conveyor transport department, and others.

The court considered the case under Article 277 (part 3) — "Violation of Safety Regulations during Mining and Construction Work, resulting in The Death of Two or More Persons by Negligence."

Today (February 25), the defendants were sentenced — all received four years.

The prosecutor requested to find the defendants guilty and sentence them to four years of imprisonment to be served in a minimum security facility (with deprivation of the right to hold leadership positions in the mining and construction sectors for a period of three years.

The defendants have young children, a mitigating circumstance (punishment cannot exceed four years of imprisonment), explained the Shakhtinsk City Court press service.

The verdict has not yet entered into legal force.

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