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President of Kazakhstan Kassym-Jomart Tokayev. File photoNUR-SULTAN, Apr 3Kazakhstan's special services have detained a foreign intelligence agent who was planning an assassination attempt on the country's President Kassym-Zhomart Tokayev, the press service of the National Security Committee (KNB) of the republic said. «March 25 On 2022, in the city of Nur-Sultan, the counterintelligence of the KNB detained a foreign intelligence agent, a citizen of the Republic «A», who was planning an assassination attempt on the President of Kazakhstan and a number of high-ranking government officials,» the message says. It is explained that at the same time he planned to commit terrorist acts against employees of special and law enforcement agencies. «In addition, agent «A» practiced tasks to promote anti-Russian propaganda in the republic and create Russophobic views in society by publishing relevant materials on social networks,» the press service informs. According to the report, as a result of a search, a sniper foreign-made rifle and with a silencer, drugs and a large sum of money. Parts of the weapons were brought to Kazakhstan in a professionally disguised form. At the preliminary investigation, the Kazakhstani admitted to committing these actions “on the instructions and in the interests of a foreign state.” An investigation is underway under part one of Article 24 (Preparation for a crime and attempted crime) and part four of Article 255 (Act of Terrorism) of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Kazakhstan.