On March 6, 2024, in court № 2 of Pavlodar, a criminal case of hooliganism involving the use of gas weapons was reviewed. The defendant turned out to be the head of the personnel policy department of the KUIS MVD RK training center.
It was established in court that in January 2023, the defendant fired several shots at two men with a gas pistol equipped with light-noise and gas cartridges in the parking lot in front of a billiard club on Suraganov Street in Pavlodar. The men fled, and the police officer fled the crime scene.
The court found the defendant guilty under Article 293 Part 3 of the Criminal Code and sentenced him to 3 years of restricted freedom, considering mitigating circumstances such as having three minor children and aggravating circumstances of committing a crime by a person who violated his oath. The defendant was also stripped of the special rank of "police lieutenant colonel."
The verdict has not yet entered into legal force. Commenting on the incident in January 2023, the press service of the Pavlodar region police department reported that a conflict had occurred among billiard club visitors, during which the police officer fired shots from a gas pistol. One of the participants in the conflict was an employee of the Ekibastuz Police Department.
