Affiliated media: Total Media Qazaqstan LLP, Total.kz owner

Incident date: March 30, 2023

Attack type:

• Court trial

Who attacked: Non-authorities

Source: Adil Soz

Location: Kazakhstan, Almaty, Almaty

Additional information:

The Almaty court has accepted for consideration a civil suit for the protection of the business reputation of Astana-ERC LLP against the correspondent of the news agency Total.kz Alma Omarova and the owner of the media Total Media Qazaqstan LLP. 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 to the capital citizens 1.5 billion tenge», published on Total.kz on August 8, 2022.