"Ratel.kz" is blocked. The offices of Forbes.kz and Ratel.kz are searched

On March 30, the court of the Medeu district court of Almaty noted the claim of the Medeu district prosecutor to declare the registration certificate of the analytical Internet portal Ratel.kz to be no longer in force, to prohibit its publication and the use of the domain names "Ratel.kz" and "Balborsyk. kz. " The prosecutor also demands to ban the editor-in-chief of Ratel.kz Marat Asipov "distribution of information materials under the name (on behalf of) of the publisher of the Internet portal" Ratel.kz "and" Balborsyk.kz ".

The prosecutor applied for a suspension of Ratel’s publishing on any domain name as securing  the claim. On March 30, Judge G.Beisenova  satisfied the prosecutor's petition.

The editorial board found out that the publication was blocked by the court's decision in the evening of Friday, March 30. The journalists did not receive a statement of the claim, the editorial board was not summoned to court when the decision to block the publication was made.

The preliminary hearing is scheduled for April 5. On April 2 searches began in the offices of Forbes Kazakhstan and Ratel.kz. The groungs for the searches are unknown.

As it was reported earlier,  on April 4, 2017, the court compelled Ratel.kz, Forbes.kz and V. Protsentov to pay KZT 50 million 200 thousand to the ex-Minister of Finance and State Revenues Zeynulla Kakimzhanov and his son Ilkhalid Kakimzhanov as compensation for moral injury;

On March 19, 2018 the site of the information resource Ratel.kz was blocked due to the fact that "the contact information assigned to the domain name of registrant is irrelevant" (the domain of Ratel.kz was registered with Gennady Benditsky.) The journalist died after a serious illness on December 3 2017);

On March 26, 2018 the son of Gennady Benditsky, Oleg re-registered the domain of Ratel.kz in his own name.