A fire broke out in the north-eastern Abai region, killing at least 15 and causing the loss of dozens of thousands of hectares of forest area. It took days for emergency workers to extinguish the fire. President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev dismissed the minister of emergency situations Yuri Ilyn and the deputy prosecutor general said that Ilyn, together with the minister of ecology and the regional governor, will be among those who will be summoned to court within the framework of a criminal investigation regarding the fire.
ALMATY. May 11 (Interfax-Kazakhstan) - The ex-head of the Kazakh National Chamber of Entrepreneurs Ablai Myrzakhmetov has been put in custody, the Anti-Corruption Service told Interfax-Kazakhstan.
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