Taraz, 3 November. In Taraz, unfinished work worth 1.5 billion tenge on building 22 apartment blocks in the Aulie Ata micro-district has been restored, the Supreme Audit Chamber reported.
The city akimat’s construction department took the measures on the chamber’s order.
An audit of the efficiency of use of state resources in Zhambyl region, the statement says, found that the construction department of the Taraz akimat had systematically broken the rules on paying advances. Budget execution rules require a contractor to cover an advance in full with completed work, but despite unworked advances for 2024, a further 1.5 billion tenge was overpaid to contractors in the first half of 2025. The auditors saw in this a risk of inefficient spending and a sign of weak control.
In addition, when paving the Buryl residential area, the technical council removed from the project work on installing drainage trays and storm wells and excess asphalt worth 683.3 million tenge, but did not amend the design and estimate documents, as the law requires. The chamber ordered the unfinished work worth 1.5 billion tenge to be restored and the design and estimate documents to be corrected. According to it, work on the Aulie Ata project has now been completed in full; for Buryl, documents to correct the estimate have been prepared and the contract sum with the contractor reduced. Other instructions remain under the chamber’s control.
What it means: An advance of a billion and a half tenge turned out to have been paid for work that did not yet exist; after the audit the contractors did it, and the Buryl paving contract was reduced. When exactly this happened the statement does not say.
Who benefits: The budget, whose funds are now backed by work, and residents of the Aulie Ata micro-district, where 22 blocks were completed. What measures were taken against officials of the construction department the chamber did not say.
Background: The Supreme Audit Chamber audited the use of state resources in Zhambyl region; instructions from its findings remain under the chamber’s control.
