A number of businessmen in Kazakhstan ignore the president’s call for sacrificing funds to the new charitable foundation “Kazakhstan Khalқyn”. The head of the Kazakhstan state of Kasym-Zhomart Tokayev said on an extraordinary, XXI congress of the ruling party Nur Otan, where he could unanimously elected the new chairman.
“… Some people are notable in the business of persons who are part of the oligopoly and even with its personification, are in no hurry to participate in a charity event, initiated by the head of state. This is what: greed, nihilism, exaggement or disregard?” – Wrongs Tokayev, whose quotation leads FerganaNews agency.
The President of Kazakhstan stressed that the state “has a whole set of powers to get a complete answer to this question.” “For its part, I plan to release a special decree regulating the process of charity from a large business,” he added.
About the establishment of the Public Social Foundation “Kazakhstan Halkina”, where the company’s contributions should regularly do, Tokayev announced on January 11 during his speech in Mazhilis, reminds the agency. From the beginning of the Foundation, there were billions of tenge from Kazakhstani officials and entrepreneurs. Among the first contribution was made by Kaspi.kz – the Kazakhstani Platform for Financial Management and Payments, and its co-founders Vyacheslav Kim and Mikhail Lomtadze. They transferred “Kazakhstan Khalқyn” 10 billion tenge (almost $ 23 million). Halyk Bank (controlled by Timur and Dinara Kulibayev, the son-in-law and daughter of the former president) listed 3 billion tenge to the fund (about $ 7 million). The Kulibaev family additionally donated 10 billion tenge ($ 23 million) through their Halyk Charitable Foundation. The largest producers of copper – the group of companies “Kazakhmys” and the group of Kaz Minerals declared a transfer to the social fund 25 billion tenge ($ 57.5 million). Eurasian Resources Group (shareholders, in addition to the Government of the Republic of Kazakhstan, are the Ibrahimov family (20.7%), Alexander Mashkevich (20.7%), Patoch Shodiev (18.6%) decided to sacrifice the Fund 30 billion tenge (about $ 70 million). The money of the new Fund is expected to be aimed at solving problems of citizens in the field of health, education, social support, culture and sports.