Case of former head of Kazakhstan’s Statistics Agency submitted to court

Anar MeshimbayevaThe case of the head of Kazakhstan's Statistics Agency Anar Meshimbayeva has been submitted to the court, trend.az reports citing press service of prosecutor's office of Astana said.

"The case of Anar Meshimbayeva has been submitted to the court. Currently the criminal case is in the process of the district court No.2 of Astana's Yesil district," press service of the agency said.

Recall that in October this year, the Agency of the Republic of Kazakhstan for Fighting Economic and Corruption Crimes completed the processing of the criminal case against the former head of the Statistics Agency Anar Meshimbayeva, who has been wanted since 2009. After her arrest she was extradited by the Russian Federation in September 2013.

Anar Meshimbayeva is accused of embezzling some 758.2 million tenge ($ 1 - 152 tenge 8) allocated for the government procurement of services for the preparation of census tools for the national population census in 2009 with a group of persons in collusion with two deputies, heads of contracting organization and other individuals, as well as the abuse of power in government procurement of air conditioners for server hardware, causing damage to the state in the amount of 3,523,514 tenge.