Affiliated media: DAT Public Position (datnews.info), Newspaper

Incident date: May 29, 2020

Attack type:

• Prosecution for libel, insult, violation of privacy (1)

Who attacked: Non-authorities

Source: Adil Soz

Location: Kazakhstan, Almaty Province, Almaty

Additional information:

Businessman Magomed Yandiev from Shchuchinsk applied to the editorial office of the DAT | Public Position newspaper for a refutation and compensation for moral damage of KZT 5,000,000. «In the article "They 'came over"... a tractor driver”, the newspaper publishes information that, as it is written in the article itself, is impossible to verify,» – he writes. «Nevertheless, the statements unambiguously indicate that, in the opinion of the newspaper, being the "homegrown oligarch", I have patronage from the law enforcement agencies, the court and the prosecutor’s office of the Burabay district, and in Kokshetau I have a wholesale base through which the flow of counterfeit alcohol goes, and I was on the run because of problems with the law...» – says the pre-trial claim.