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Correspondent of website www.guljan.org Valeriy Surganov has been sentenced to year and half of imprisonment

7 november 2011
Journalist has no right to visit the entertainment place; should be outside the house later on 21.00 p.m. (local time), leave the town, without police sanction within a year and a half. He should recover KZT100000 (1USD=147.97) as moral damage compensation and place the disclaimer on the website www.guljan.org. Correspondent of website www.guljan.org Valeriy Surganov has been sentenced to year and half of restriction of freedom, according to judgment of Medeu District Court №2 on November 07, 2011.

The criminal case was opened against a journalist of the website www.guljan.org Valeriy Surganov under article 129 part 3 (“Slander combined with an accusation of a person in the commission of a grave or an especially grave corruption crime”) of Criminal Code of the Republic of Kazakhstan on July 20, 2011. The Chairman of the Department of Struggle for Economic and Corruption Crimes (Financial Police) of Pavlodar Oblast Sandzhar Aliev has made a criminal claim. The charges originated from the articles “Kings of Financial Police Part Second” and “Murder of Kazakhstan's student Ernar Aliev in Moscow”, written by Surganov. The first article was placed on the website www.guljan.org on July 12, 2011 and the second one was published in the newspaper Kazakhstan on July 14, 2011.

Sandzhar Aliev has thought that in his articles journalist distributed the false information, accussed him in committment of grave crimes such as, kidnapping, beating and rape. He has also asked to recover KZT10000000 (1USD=147.97) as moral damage compensation.
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