Law enforcement officers of Kazakhstan busted an illegal grain trade scheme in the Kostanay region where a criminal group had been reexporting the Russian grain to Uzbekistan by trucks in the past two years, the Khabar 24 reports.
The goods were documented as Kazakhstan origin, which allowed the perpetrator to evade international transit tariffs. During inspections, they provided fake invoices from domestic farms.
Alibek Abdilov, official representative of the Agency for Financial Monitoring of the Republic of Kazakhstan: “Between 2021 and 2022, the group managed to sell the Russian origin grain in the amount of 4.8 tons worth more than $1mn, which made it possible to evade nearly $200 thousand of a transit tariff payment.”
The pre-trial investigation continues.
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