Kazakhstan to pay citizens for reporting terror-related information

The Kazakh government adopted a regulation on monetary payments to the citizens, reporting information that could help prevent a terrorist attack. 

"The territorial authority has to notify the citizen who reported information about a planned terrorist attack that he could receive a reward for this within three working days," Sputnik cited the decree as saying.

According to it, individuals who report information that would help prevent or suppress a terror attack would be paid a cash award in the amount from 750 to 1000 monthly calculation indexes (MCI) by the authorized body. With the current MCI level of 2,121 tenge ($6.2), the payment would be about $4,650-$6,200. 

The regulation "on approval of rules of establishment and payment of fees for information which helped to prevent or suppress an act of terrorism" was elaborated by the National Security Committee of the Republic of Kazakhstan and would enter into force on January 1, 2017.