Minister of Finance Yerulan Zhamaubayev said that the Prosecutor General's Office is investigating more than 20 criminal cases on the facts of illegal withdrawal of funds from Kazakhstan, Kazpravda.kz correspondent reports.
“The Ministry of Finance, together with the National Bank, analyzes all statistics and information. We have submitted about eight cases to the Financial Monitoring Agency. They were supposed to conduct a pre-trial investigation, and then, if necessary, there would be criminal cases. If I am not mistaken, the amount is within one billion US dollars in eight cases,” Yerulan Zhamaubayev said on the sidelines of the government.
He also said that the Prosecutor General's Office is investigating more than 20 criminal cases.
“According to them, the amount of damage is also estimated at about $1 billion. But they can give more detailed information,” summed up the head of the Ministry of Finance.
