KNB-agents confiscate bookkeeping documents and office equipment without inventory
19 december 2012
December 19, 2012 16.00 p.m.
Journalists, who presented at searching of editorial offices of newspaper "Golos Respubliki" and video portal "Stan", they say:
"There is a process of seizure of bookkeeping documents and office equipment in editorial office of newspaper "Golos Respubliki" and office of video portal "Stan".
KNB-agents do not give any sensible explanations as regards this. It is impossible to understand how the case brought against owner of real estate, related to activity of these offices, which officially rented these premises.
The more especially as owner of this property did not come to Kazakhstan for several years, in other words, he out of Kazakhstan regularly, was able to enter into these offices and to leave something there.
The process of seizure is executed without inventory, it is a direct violation of law. They adhered to their principles: first of all they seized everything, then they would make an inventory. That is then can be something in the inventory – even something was not in the editorial office in principle.
In January, 2002 there was the same situation with suppression of documents of the owner of newspaper "Respublika-Delovoye Obozrenie". Then, they had not been also suppressed, ten years later, nobody knew about their destiny.
KNB-agents came to editorial offices on December 19, 2012. They intented to make a search there. The process of search is made within scope of a case against Muratbek Ketebayev, according to ruling. There can be "valuable things for case" in rooms-owned him.
Journalists, who presented at searching of editorial offices of newspaper "Golos Respubliki" and video portal "Stan", they say:
"There is a process of seizure of bookkeeping documents and office equipment in editorial office of newspaper "Golos Respubliki" and office of video portal "Stan".
KNB-agents do not give any sensible explanations as regards this. It is impossible to understand how the case brought against owner of real estate, related to activity of these offices, which officially rented these premises.
The more especially as owner of this property did not come to Kazakhstan for several years, in other words, he out of Kazakhstan regularly, was able to enter into these offices and to leave something there.
The process of seizure is executed without inventory, it is a direct violation of law. They adhered to their principles: first of all they seized everything, then they would make an inventory. That is then can be something in the inventory – even something was not in the editorial office in principle.
In January, 2002 there was the same situation with suppression of documents of the owner of newspaper "Respublika-Delovoye Obozrenie". Then, they had not been also suppressed, ten years later, nobody knew about their destiny.
KNB-agents came to editorial offices on December 19, 2012. They intented to make a search there. The process of search is made within scope of a case against Muratbek Ketebayev, according to ruling. There can be "valuable things for case" in rooms-owned him.
