Alma Omarova

Affiliated media: Total.kz , Journalist

Incident date: March 30, 2023

Attack type:

• prosecution for violation of the honour, dignity and business reputation; violation of privacy following civil lawsuit

Who attacked: Non-authorities

Source: Adil Soz

Location: Kazakhstan, Almaty, Almaty

Additional information:

The Almaty court accepted the civil suit for the protection of the business reputation of Astana-ERC LLP against Alma Omarova, the correspondent of the Total.kz news agency, and Total Media Qazaqstan LLP, the owner of the media. The plaintiff insists that the journalists disseminated defamatory information about the activities of the partnership and requires that the defendants refute a fragment of the article «Astana-ERC LLP should return 1.5 billion tenge to consumers in the capital», published on Total.kz on August 8, 2022.