Tokayev receives Chairman of Agency for Financial Monitoring
The Head of State received today the Chairman of the Financial Monitoring Agency Zhanat Elimanov. Kassym-Jomart Tokayev heard a report on the outcomes of the Agency's activities and tasks for the upcoming period, El.kz reports via Akorda.
The Head of State was informed about completion of 300 criminal cases. The victims were compensated for damage in the amount of about 20 billion tenge.
Criminal proceeds in the form of cryptocurrency of the organizers of financial pyramids for 2.2 billion tenge have been frozen. 6 organized criminal groups were eliminated, including one transnational one. Unreasonable budget expenditure in the amount of 23 billion tenge in the implementation of large infrastructure projects were prevented.
The Head of State was briefed about the suppression of channels for the illegal export of timber and scrap metal, as well as the elimination of large schemes for the illegal export of gasoline, which helped to stabilize the situation in the domestic market.
Zhanat Elimanov spoke about the measures to protect citizens from financial fraud and reduce the debt burden. The Agency revealed an illegal scheme of the network of microfinance organizations, from which 327 thousand citizens suffered, the total damage amounted to 30 billion tenge. 24 financial pyramids were liquidated. For prevention purposes, 5.6 thousand sites that distributed fraudulent schemes were blocked, 30 group chats and accounts with a total audience of over 22 thousand people were closed.
Kassym-Jomart Tokayev was also informed about the ongoing preventive work: in order to exclude the involvement of young people in criminal schemes, lessons on financial security were held for 567 thousand schoolchildren from 2.8 thousand educational institutions. Similar work has been carried out in 100 universities covering more than 100 thousand students.
According to Elimanov, legislative amendments have been made to the Mazhilis of the Parliament on combating money laundering. Their adoption will allow Kazakhstan to achieve full technical compliance with FATF standards.
The Head of State instructed to continue work on the prevention of economic offenses, reducing shadow turnover, combating the laundering of illegally obtained assets, as well as improving the financial literacy of the population.
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