Affiliated media: Total Media Qazaqstan , Media owner

Incident date: March 31, 2021

Attack type:

• Court trial

Who attacked: Non-authorities

Source: Adil Soz

Location: Kazakhstan, Almaty Province, Almaty

Additional information:

The owner of the Total.kz information portal, Total Media Qazaqstan LLP, was involved in the trial as a defendant in a civil lawsuit filed by citizen A. Mazin. The plaintiff accuses the media of belittling honor and dignity for the publication of 2016 «Almost 500 million tenge were stolen from the state by the pseudo-businessmen». The article was based on the press release of the court about the conviction of two residents of the North-Kazakhstan region for pseudo-business.