Giving gifts to civil servants is prohibited

The current legislation imposes special requirements and restrictions on civil servants when performing public service.

It also defines disciplinary offenses that discredit the public service, the responsibility for which is provided in the form of: demotion in public office, warnings about incomplete official compliance or dismissal.

In particular, the following illegal acts on the part of civil servants are recognized as misdemeanors:

1) giving gifts and rendering non-service services to officials in order to obtain property benefits, benefits or advantages using the official powers of these persons;

2) accepting gifts or services in connection with the performance of their state or equivalent functions from state employees and other persons dependent on them in the service, for general patronage or connivance in the service.

For receiving a gift, a civil servant is subject to a fine of six hundred monthly calculation indices.

A gift worth more than 2 MCI is criminally liable under Articles 366 (taking a bribe) and 367 (giving a bribe) Criminal Code of the Republic of Kazakhstan.

 

HRM Internal Investigations Division

State Duma of the Almaty region