Verdict due in bribery trial of Kazakh deputy defense minister
| Publisher | Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty |
| Publication Date | 27 June 2014 |
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June 27, 2014
By RFE/RL's Kazakh Service
The Almaty City Military Court is expected to pronounce the verdict on June 27 in a bribery case against Kazakh Deputy Defense Minister Baghdat Maikeev.
Maikeev was arrested in February for allegedly accepting some $1.5 million in bribes. He went on trial in May.
Maikeev, who has served as deputy defense minister since September 2011, is not the first top Kazakh military official to face trial for graft in recent months.
In December, a former deputy commander of Kazakhstan's Air Force, General Asqar Buldeshev, was sentenced to 8 1/2 years in jail for abuse of office.
The former head of the Kazakh military's Armaments Department, General Almas Asenov, was sentenced last summer to 11 years in jail for accepting bribes to ignore faulty checks on An-72 aircraft.
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