ACQUITTED AFTER 2 YEARS IN PRISON, AKTOBE RESIDENT WILL BE PAID 28 MILLION TENGE
In Aktobe, the acquitted top manager, who had been in prison for more than two years, after being released, demanded 90 million tenge for moral suffering. The court partially satisfied his demands.
According to media reports, in 2018, the head of the branch of the company for the collection of ferrous scrap was accused of embezzlement of 16 million tenge, the court sentenced him to 7 years in prison.
The Supreme Court studied the criminal case and concluded that the court of the first instance conducted it with an accusatory bias, violated the rights of the accused, and sent it for a new hearing to the appeals board of the Aktobe Regional Court. This time, the board made an opposite decision and acquitted the convicted person due to the absence of corpus delicti in his actions.
The acquitted Ardak K. demanded through the court that the state compensate him for moral and material damage. For a long time, he worked in managerial positions, engaged in commercial activities, raised three children, was an exemplary family man, but his reputation was crossed out by detention and accusation of a crime that he did not commit. In addition, due to imprisonment, he could not attend his brother's funeral. He estimated his moral suffering from all this at 90 million tenge and demanded that the state reimburse him this amount. He also spent 3.5 million tenge on lawyers, defending his innocence. He also demanded to reimburse this amount.
The court partially satisfied his demands. He estimated his moral suffering at 20 million tenge. Specifically, the court ordered the Ministry of Finance to pay the plaintiff 28 million tenge, this amount includes compensation for moral damage, legal expenses, and lost income.