Istanbul Anti-Corruption Action Plan for

Kazakhstan is largely compliant with this recommendation. 

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Recommendation 4
Further strengthen human and material resources and capacities of the Agency of the Republic of 
Kazakhstan for the Fight against Economic and Corruption Crime and ensure that within the Agency in 
addition to specialized anti-corruption investigators adequate additional personnel have expertise in 
financial control matters. 
Kazakhstan attained certain successes in setting up a specialized body for the fight against a 
corruption – the Agency for the Fight against economic and corruption crime (Financial Police).
According to the information received from the authorities, considerable funds are allocated annually 
from the republican budget in order to strengthen material and technical capacity of the Financial Police 
bodies. The national budget provides this funding in the framework of the Programme of Agency of 
Ensuring the Activity of the Authorised Body for the Fight against Economic and Corruptive Crime, 
specifically, the sub-programme of material and technical support of the public authorities. 
For the year 2005 the budget of the Agency was KZT 4.6 billon and in 2006 – KZT 5.1 billion, and in 
2007 – KZT 6.7 billion. The figures show a systematic increase of the budget funding for this Agency. 
Additional funding is provided for conducting operational law enforcement activities (special investigative 
methods, special operations, etc, involvement of the auditors, financial experts). 
Within the Financial Police, a unit for detecting financial crime and corruption has been organized. 
The unit is staffed with officials with university degrees in economics and with experience in the financial 
and banking sector. In 2005, out of a total of 47 personnel, there were five officers with higher level 
economic education, in 2006 there were nine, and in 2007 there were twelve. Seven officers have higher 
level education in law and economics. In 2005, 38 officers had experience in the audit system and three in 
banking. In 2006, 43 officers had experience in the audit system and seven in banking. Currently in 2007, 
practically every officer has experience in all these areas.