Director of the Gas Processing Plant in Kazakhstan Zhanaozen is detained. It is reported by the state television channel “Kazakhstan”.
According to the financial monitoring agency, the head of the enterprise unreasonably raised gas prices. The pre-trial investigation has begun. In addition, the head of the site is detained on the electronic trade of this type of fuel.
It is noted that the Kazakh Gas Processing Plant supplies liquefied gas into a significant part of the country and provides the Mangystau region where the riots on the basis of price increases were passed the day before.
Protests in Kazakhstan against rising fuel prices began on January 2. In some cities, the protesters called on the first President of the Republic of Nursultan Nazarbayev to leave politics. On January 4, the collisions of protesters with security forces occurred in the Republic of Kazakhstan in Almaty, the unrest began in other cities of the country. In Alma-Ata and in the Mangystau region, for the period of emergency regime, the Commandant hour has been introduced from January 5 to 19 from 23.00 to 7.00.