NSC and MIA Eliminated Transnational Criminal Group

March 10 this year in the cities of Nur-Sultan, Almaty, Pavlodar and Semey, the National Security Committee (NSC) together with the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) carried out a large-scale special operation to suppress an organized criminal group involved in the commission of serious and particularly serious offences.

The detained 16 members of the group are charged with kidnapping, extortion, attempted murder, theft of gold-containing raw materials at one of the enterprises of the East Kazakhstan region and its smuggling outside the Republic of Kazakhstan, as well as the creation and management of a transnational criminal group.

The criminal group included current and former law enforcement officers.

During the arrest, large sums of money, material values, communication equipment and other items confirming the crimes were found and seized from the attackers.

Investigative and operational activities continue.

                                                                                                                   

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