“The trials of criminal cases investigated by the National Security Committee against two citizens of Kazakhstan have been completed. In 2020-2022, they were members of terrorist organizations in Syria. As a result of operations carried out jointly with foreign partners, they were discovered abroad, brought home and arrested,” the statement said.
One of them, a resident of the Turkestan region, was found guilty of participating in the activities of a terrorist group (Article 257 of the Criminal Code), and the second, a resident of Atyrau, was convicted of committing a similar crime, as well as for undergoing terrorist training abroad (Article 260 of the Criminal Code).
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