Kazkosmos fires Kazakhstan Garysh Sapary President detained in $700.000 bribe sting
15:28, 14 August 2013
ASTANA. August 14. KAZINFORM President of JSC "National Company "Kazakhstan Garysh Sapary" was dismissed by the decree of the Kazakh National Space Agency in light of a criminal investigation launched against him by the Kazakh Agency for Economic and Corruption Related Crimes (Financial Police), Kazkosmos website says.
The Kazakh National Space Agency named First Vice-President of Kazakhstan Garysh Sapary Mr. Nurguzhin as interim chief.
NOTE: On August 1, 2013 Gavyllatyp Murzakulov, the president of JSC "NC "Kazakhstan Garysh Sapary", was detained in a sting operation with cash in two big bags after demanding $ 272 thousand and KZT 75.3 million from a company responsible for construction of a spacecraft test complex.
Murzakulov had a confidant Erbol Assylbekov collect the bribe from Tuken Yegenbayev, the CEO of SK "Kulager" Ltd., for lobbying Kulager's interests in numerous tenders for construction of the spacecraft test complex.
Both Murzakulov and Assylbekov were arrested on August 3. Yegenbayev is under house arrest.