High-ranking officials letting their subordinates commit corruption will be required to resign - Baimenov

ASTANA. February 21. KAZINFORM In Kazakhstan, there has been drafted a bill mandating high-ranking officials to tender resignation if their subordinates commit corruption, Chairman of Kazakh Civil Service Affairs Agency Alikhan Baimenov said on the sidelines of the Government meeting on Tuesday.

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According to A. Baimenov, the bill provides that heads of the state bodies, who are public officers, are obliged to resign in case if their subordinates have committed corruption-related crime. In this case the resignation may be accepted or rejected in discretion of the person, who appointed this public officer.