The investigation of an organized criminal group of 25 people, which included employees of "Kaspi Bank", "Forte Bank", "Eurasian Bank" and "Jusan Bank", has been completed in the Akmola region of Kazakhstan.
For more than five years, intruders have been abducting poor citizens and taking loans in their name for significant amounts, Ferghana writes.
According to the prosecutor's office of the region, 348 people became victims, and the damage amounted to 3.7 billion tenge ($6.8 million).
During the investigation, property acquired with criminal money was seized – apartments and land plots in Almaty, expensive cars and large amounts of cash.
The total value of the seized property amounted to 2.7 billion tenge (about $5 million). All members of the group were detained and placed in a temporary detention facility.
The investigation began after complaints from residents of the Zerendinsky district. Pensioners and the people in need claimed that loans had been issued in their names, which they had never taken out. After an inspection initiated by the district prosecutor, a criminal case was opened in November 2024. At that time, the number of victims was estimated at about 400 people.
