"They want to find scapegoats." Residents of Bestobe demand to save the underground mines - they are called to the police, 19 July 2022

Residents of the village Bestobe in Akmola region, among whom are employees of the mining enterprise, as a result of expressing dissatisfaction with the halt of the work of gold underground mines, are summoned for interrogation. An application to the police was written by the company managing the mines which had previously announced plans to move from underground to open-pit mining. Residents are against the latter: they believe that the village may disappear...

The equipment is taken out of the underground mine, and residents, including employees of the enterprise, express their dissatisfaction to the akimat and the Altynalmas company that owns the Kazakhaltyn enterprise, which operates the mines. Residents of Bestobe say that they do not receive comprehensible answers to their questions. Instead they started massively receiving summons for police interrogation. The papers indicate that they are called in the status of a witness and a witness with the right to protection. The latter is literally one step away from the status of a suspect...