Prosecutor spoke about the verdict to “Wild Arman”
As the senior prosecutor of the Almaty regional transport prosecutor's office of the Main Transport Prosecutor's Office Mukhit Rysbekov said, the court considered the criminal case for more than one year.
"During this time, Dzhumageldiev and his defense lawyers tried to present him to the court and the public as a patriot of the country, a national hero, who during the sad January events helped citizens and protected them. Despite the active campaign organized by Dzhumageldiev and his defense lawyers to whitewash him, we managed to prove the opposite. We proved to the court that Dzhumageldiev, back in 2016, long before those events, led a criminal organization, an armed gang, which included the same representatives of the criminal world," said Mukhit Rysbekov.
According to the prosecutor, mass riots are crimes clearly planned in advance by individual representatives of special agencies and the criminal world.
"Members of the gang, on his (Wild Arman - ed.) instructions, committed mass riots on Republic Square and in other areas of the city of Almaty, kidnapped civilians and forcibly detained them. They beat them, filming it all on cell phone cameras. To implement this plan, in August 2021, Dzhumageldiev acquired a fictitious security agency, to which 10 weapons were registered. Then, in October of that year, members of the criminal group, following Dzhumageldiev's instructions, illegally acquired 12 more weapons, which were stored in the cities of Almaty and Shymkent," said Mukhit Ryspekov.
Earlier, a court in Almaty sentenced Dzhumageldiev to 20 years in prison. Former NSC officer Ruslan Iskakov was sentenced to 15.6 years of imprisonment, and former deputy of the Almaty maslikhat Kairat Kudaibergen received 8 years of imprisonment. Other participants in the mass riots - members of Dzhumageldiev's gang (13 people in total) - were sentenced to 10 to 15.5 years of imprisonment.
Other participants in the mass riots who were not part of the gang were sentenced to 1.5 to 7 years of imprisonment. A motion to deprive a number of convicted persons of state awards will be filed.
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