Prosecutor’s Office Employee Again Appeals to President

The employee again reached out to the President and claimed pressure from colleagues, Orda.kz reports.

The case involving possible manipulations in the Unified Register of Pre-Trial Investigations (ERDR) continues.

Aliya Kozhabekova, an employee of the General Prosecutor’s Office of Kazakhstan, has released another video message to the President, stating that after her public statements, pressure from colleagues has increased, and the department’s inspection is being conducted formally.

Kozhabekova maintains that data in the Unified Register was repeatedly and deliberately deleted or altered between 2013 and 2023, affecting crime detection statistics.

She alleges that the scale of the violations is too large to assess in just a few days, and the inspection is being handled by the same people who previously ignored her complaints:

When I came to the Committee on Legal Statistics in the Jambyl Region, I discovered that all materials related to these violations had been deleted from my work computer. The hard drive had been formatted. Despite this, I proved that the facts of deletion had indeed taken place. In response, I was told that the guilty parties had already been punished. But this is a lie. No one was held accountable for either the adjustments or the deletion of data in the Unified Register of Pre-Trial Investigations,
 says Kozhabekova.

She claims the commission came not to investigate, but to cover up the case and gather compromising information on her.

Inspectors are allegedly pressuring her to agree that only five or six violations were found, promising that in return, the head of the local department, Zhandos Burkitbayev, will be rotated.

Kozhabekova also claims that there is a personal connection between Deputy Chair of the Committee on Legal Statistics, Gabit Mirazov, and Prosecutor General, Berik Asylov.

She believes this is preventing an objective investigation.

The commission is not checking, but looking for a reason to discredit me. This is not an inspection, but a hunt for dirt.

The official position of the department has not changed.

The Prosecutor General’s Office says an earlier on-site inspection in the Jambyl region found no violations, and the Internal Security Directorate saw no grounds to open a case.

Earlier, after Kozhabekova’s first appeals, Prosecutor General Berik Asylov ordered a repeat inspection, sending staff from Internal Security and a specialized department to the region.

Original Author: Ruslan Loginov