Prosecutor's Office Employee Alleges Tampering, Probe Finds No Evidence
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A video message from a current employee of the Prosecutor General's Office, Aliya Kozhabekova, has gone viral on social media, in which she directly appeals to the President with serious allegations of internal misconduct, Orda.kz reports.
In the video, Kozhabekova claims that staff from the Committee on Legal Statistics and Special Records have been manipulating the Unified Register of Pre-Trial Investigations (ERDR) by deleting specific entries — actions that, she says, skew official crime detection statistics.
The prosecutor claimed to have previously learned of other alleged violations when she headed the criminal statistics department. She was later dismissed from this position and demoted.
In 2013, while I was on leave, some unscrupulous employees deleted records from the database about individuals who had been held criminally responsible, so that no criminal records would appear. When I returned, a committee employee issued an internal investigation report blaming me for it, and I was removed from my position as head of the department. I filed a lawsuit and won the first case, but after I appealed General Saule Atpayeva’s order, the committee employees did everything they could to overturn those decisions. Since then, I haven’t been allowed to work properly. I’ve been repeatedly transferred to remote districts with my young children, as a form of exile,said Kozhabekova.
After returning to the department 11 years later, Kozhabekova once again discovered instances of interference in the ERDR database. She reported the issue to her superiors, but claims that not all of those responsible were held accountable and that no criminal case was opened.
Kozhabekova says she is now facing renewed pressure at work and has already been suspended from her position. In her appeal, she calls for an independent and impartial investigation, as well as a review of her previous complaints.
In response, the Committee on Legal Statistics and Special Records, under the Prosecutor General's Office, issued an official statement, stating that its Internal Security Directorate had conducted an on-site inspection and found no violations.
Original Author: Aliya Askarova
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