KNB Detains State Revenues Department Official Over Secret Border Scheme
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Damir Rakhimbekov, head of the export control division at the Department of State Revenues in West Kazakhstan Region, has become the subject of a criminal investigation. The National Security Committee (KNB) confirmed to Uralskaya Nedelya that a pre-trial probe is underway, Orda.kz reports.
Rakhimbekov was detained in early November in Astana, where he had arrived on a business trip. He was allegedly found carrying about 100 million tenge in cash.
Investigators believe the money may have been a bribe.
Links to “Gadjiev’s” Schemes?
Several business owners operating on the Kazakhstan–Russia border claim that Rakhimbekov has ties to entrepreneur Gadji Gadjiev.
Since November 1, trucks have been allowed through certain border checkpoints — but only those belonging to so-called “Gadjiev-affiliated” transport and logistics companies, they say.
All that’s left for us is to move our cargo into Russia by paying 700 dollars just to process the paperwork in our own name. So, we're paying for the documents. Now multiply that by roughly two thousand trucks that need to cross the border and you can imagine the volume of cash circulating in this corruption scheme. the source told Ural’skaya Nedelya.
Original Author: Zarina Faizullina
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