First Deputy Chief of Police of Kyzylorda Region detained for bribe

The First Deputy Chief of the police department of the Kyzylorda region and an employee of the department for combating organized crime were detained by operatives of the National Security Committee of Kazakhstan, the message of the department reads.

The men illegally extorted money from an individual entrepreneur: for a reward, they promised him to stop conducting checks on his betting shop.

The suspects were caught red-handed receiving 300 thousand tenge from the businessman, Sputnik Kazakhstan reports.