“It is too early to talk about the consequences of recent events in Kazakhstan, but we are closely monitoring the development of events,” said a representative of the fund.
On January 5, it became known that the director of a gas processing plant in the city of Zhanaozen in western Kazakhstan, Nakbergen Tulepov, was detained amid protests due to rising gas prices.
The government of Kazakhstan has introduced temporary state regulation on the sale of liquefied petroleum gas, gasoline and diesel.
Later, the Agency for the Protection and Development of Competition of Kazakhstan announced that the actions of the largest sellers of liquefied gas recorded signs of price collusion.
In addition, Kazakhstan launched an investigation into six wholesalers of liquefied gas.