A complete ban on gifts

Thus, one of the anti-corruption measures is a complete ban on gifts, material remuneration and the provision of services to civil servants and their family members for actions in favor of the donor.

Thus, the current legislation prohibits giving any valuable gifts to civil servants, depending on their official position.

Gifts received without the knowledge of a civil servant, as well as received by him in connection with the performance of relevant functions, are subject to a seven-day period of gratuitous delivery to a special state fund. And the services rendered to a civil servant under the same circumstances must be paid for by transferring money to the republican budget.

In addition, family members of a civil servant are not entitled to receive material remuneration, gifts or services from individuals and legal entities with whom the civil servant is connected in the service. A civil servant is obliged to hand over gifts illegally received by his family members to a special state fund free of charge within seven days and reimburse the cost of services that his family members unlawfully used by transferring money to the republican budget.

For receiving a gift worth less than 2 MCI, a civil servant is provided with an administrative fine in the amount of six hundred monthly calculation indices.

A gift worth more than 2 MCI entails criminal liability in accordance with articles 366 (receiving a bribe) The Criminal Code of the Republic of Kazakhstan.