Baku, Azerbaijan, Jan. 19
By Elena Kosolapova - Trend:
Regional court of Kazakh Karaganda region reduced the term of imprisonment of former Prime Minister Serik Akhmetov by 1 year and 7 months, Kazakhstan Today reported.
The court granted the petition submitted by Akhmetov to reduce his sentence in accordance with the law "On amnesty in connection with the 25th anniversary of Independence of the Republic of Kazakhstan” passed in Dec. 2016.
The law on an amnesty applies to about 30,000 convicts and people held in pretrial detention. Some 1,500 people behind the bars are to be freed and the rest would have their prison terms shortened within the law.
Akhmetov served as a Prime Minister during September 2012 – April 2014.
In Dec. 2015 Akhmetov was charged of misappropriation of the property entrusted to him on a large scale, illegal participation in entrepreneurial activity and abuse of power and sentenced to 10 years in prison. Later his term of imprisonment was reduced to 8 years.
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