On administrative and criminal liability for the dissemination of knowingly false information

Under the next three articles of the Criminal Code, disseminators of false information will be punished

Article 174. Incitement of social, national, tribal, racial, class or religious hatred. Incitement of social, national, tribal, racial, class or religious hatred using public or mass media or telecommunication networks:

for a period of two to seven years, a restriction of freedom or imprisonment for the same period is imposed.

Article 273. Knowingly false reporting of an act of terrorism

Imposition of a fine in the amount of 5000 MCI;

to correctional labor or restriction of liberty for up to five years, or imprisonment for the same period.

Article 274. Dissemination of knowingly false information

For the dissemination of deliberately false information that creates a threat of disrupting public order or causing significant harm to the rights and legitimate interests of citizens or organizations or the interests of society or the state protected by law:

Imposition of a fine in the amount of up to 1000 MCI (2 778 000 tenge);

involvement in correctional labor or community service for up to 400 hours;

to restraint of liberty for up to one year, or to imprisonment for the same period.

In the Code of Administrative Offenses, the dissemination of false information is considered by the following two articles and an administrative penalty is imposed in the form of a fine.

Article 439. Communication of knowingly false information about the fact of a corruption offense

warning or fine for individuals in the amount of 20 MCI (53,020 tenge);

an action repeated within a year after the imposition of an administrative penalty entails a fine of 40 MCI (106,040 tenge).

Article 456-1. Unlawful restriction of the right to access information

Placing deliberately false information in the media, on the Internet resource of the information owner, the Internet portal of open data or in other ways provided for by the legislation of Kazakhstan

officials, small businesses, non-profit organizations - 30 MCI;

to medium-sized businesses - 50 MCI;

entails a fine for large business entities in the amount of 100 MCI;

if an administrative penalty is imposed again within a year, the amount of the fine is doubled.