Police officers on a street in Alma-AtaALMA-ATA, Feb 7 Committee National Security Committee (KNB) of Kazakhstan detained two high-ranking members of the committee on suspicion of abuse of authority, Rizabek Ozharov, head of the special prosecutors service at the Prosecutor General's Office, said at a briefing on Monday. within which the former chairman of the committee and two of his deputies were taken into custody. «On suspicion of abuse of power, the first deputy director of the Special Purpose Service «A» of the KNB and the head of the Center for this service were detained,» he said. Mass protests took place in Kazakhstan in early January. In the first days of 2022, residents of the cities of Zhanaozen and Aktau in the west of the country opposed the doubling of prices for liquefied gas. Later, the protests spread to other cities, including Alma-Ata, the old capital and the largest city of the republic: looting began there, militants attacked state institutions, took away weapons. The authorities declared a state of emergency throughout the country until January 19 and carried out a counter-terrorism operation. According to the UN, during the protests in Kazakhstan, about 1,000 people were injured. According to the country's Prosecutor General's Office, 4,578 people were injured as a result of the riots, 225 people were killed, including 19 security officials. in the Security Council
