The Department of Internal State Audit for the Karaganda Region conducted 8 audit events in the first quarter of 2026, of which 3 were according to the List of State Audit Objects for 2025-2026 and 5 were unscheduled audits. As a result of the audit, violations of the budgetary and other legislation of the Republic of Kazakhstan were identified for a total amount of 2858.3 million tenge, of which 1595.4 million tenge are subject to recovery to the budget and reinstatement.
Through the measures taken, 75.1 million tenge were reinstated and recovered to the budget, including: reinstated through accounting, performance of works, services, supply of goods – 56.5 million tenge, recovered to the budget – 18.6 million tenge.
Based on the results of the audit events, 12 officials were held accountable under disciplinary action. 3 officials were held administratively liable for a fine amount of 1.4 million tenge, with 1.2 million tenge recovered to the budget.
The main share of violations falls on violations of public procurement legislation, violations related to payroll, travel expenses and construction and installation works, and violations of the Rules for maintaining accounting records and reporting.
The causes of the violations are the lack of proper control by officials, in some cases the low qualification level of accounting staff, incorrectly applied coefficients for calculating employees' official salaries, non-compliance with construction standards by contractors, lack of proper monitoring and control of the contractor's work by the customer, and improper fulfillment of contractual obligations.
For example, during a compliance audit at the State Institution "Department of Housing and Communal Services, Passenger Transport and Highways of the City of Balkhash" regarding the execution of contracts concluded with LLP "PSK "Garant" dated 05.05.2025 No. 285, and with LLP "Ararat Universal" dated 29.10.2024 No. 410, dated 20.05.2025 No. 314, No. 315, No. 316, No. 317, financial violations amounting to 929,897.0 thousand tenge were identified. Payment was made for completed works that did not meet the requirements of the tender documentation, regulatory and technical documents, and contract terms for a total amount of 904,660.3 thousand tenge, as well as unjustified payment was made for uncompleted works by LLP "Ararat Universal" for 3 projects totaling 25,236.7 thousand tenge.
During a compliance audit at LLP "Karagandy Su", an unjustified payment for combining positions was identified for a total amount of 52,545.4 thousand tenge. Through the measures taken, the unjustified payment was fully reinstated to the enterprise's account.
The Department is constantly taking all measures provided for by law to fully recover and reinstate the amounts of violations and punish the guilty persons.