In Kazakhstan, property worth $10 million was seized for the first time from an owner who could not explain the origin of this wealth (2 photos)

If the state suspects that a person owns something illegally, he must explain how he got his wealth. If he couldn't, he has only himself to blame.





A Kazakh court has issued its first ruling on the seizure of a large sum of unexplained origin. The Asset Recovery Committee discovered that a Kazakh citizen owns a fortune through front men. The bourgeois had to explain where he got cash, expensive jewelry, and historical and cultural heritage items worth a total of $10 million. He was unable to give any intelligible testimony.



As a result, the Prosecutor General's Office Asset Return Committee succeeded in getting everything transferred back to the state treasury through the courts.

"When the state has claims, reasonable doubts that a person legally owns some property, and the subject must prove that he legally acquired it. If he does not prove this, this property is assigned the status of unexplained wealth by a court decision, and it is transferred to the state," explains Nurdaulet Sundikov, Chairman of the Prosecutor General's Office Asset Return Committee.

The defendant's appeals were dismissed.

By the way, assets whose origin will have to be proven if the state has doubts may include not only accounts, but also cars, real estate, and luxury items.