Authorities reported returning less than 1 trillion tenge, which is only a fraction of one percent of the estimated amount of funds withdrawn.
Meanwhile, the fate of the assets already returned remains a closely guarded secret. The activities of the state-owned company KUVA LLP, which manages the returned assets, are classified and completely opaque.
Elmedia Kazakhstan journalist Ayan Sharipbayev speaks of the inertia of Kazakh society on this issue. He emphasizes that hundreds of billions of dollars were stolen not from some abstract state budget, but from the pockets of every citizen of Kazakhstan.
