Tasqyn Bolatuly is a correspondent for RFE/RL's Kazakh Service.
A private company linked to a relative of former Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbaev is accused of embezzling some $44 million from a road construction project. But more than five months after the allegations, no one has been charged and officials decline to say if the money has been recovered.
The cost of building Kazakhstan’s longest bridge has more than doubled since the contract was first awarded in 2020. An investigation by RFE/RL’s Kazakh Service showed that the company overseeing the project is owned by businessmen with ties to the local governor’s son.