It is reported by RIA Novosti.

It is specified that the forces of law enforcement agencies, the military police, and the national guard participated in the capture of the military.

“A special operative group of employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the National Security Committee, a military serviceman Balgynbai Abylay Baghdatuly born in 1995, who left the military unit without permission today, having stolen firearms, was detained,” the statement said.

It is noted that the fact of the theft of weapons is under pre-trial investigation under Article 291 of the Criminal Code of Kazakhstan (the theft or extortion of weapons, ammunition, explosives and explosive devices).

Earlier it was reported that in the Turkestan region of Kazakhstan, a soldier with a weapon left the military unit without permission.