Man from Shu jailed 6 years for trying to sell 100 kg of marijuana in Aktobe
A court in Aktobe sentenced a 43-year-old man from the town of Shu to six years in prison for storing and selling marijuana, after he tried to sell 100 kilograms to an undercover KNB officer for 13 million tenge. In court he said he had found the bags beside the Aktobe-Atyrau highway and drove them into the city to pay off debts.
🇰🇿 Aktobe, Aktobe Region · Kazakhstan
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Charged
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Convicted
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Sentenced
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Agencies
Комитет национальной безопасности (КНБ), специализированный суд в Актобе
A court in Aktobe sentenced a 43-year-old man from the town of Shu to six years
in prison for storing and selling marijuana.[1][2][3][4][5]He had tried to sell 100
kilograms of marijuana in Aktobe for 13 million tenge.[1][2][3][4][5]The buyer was a KNB
officer working undercover; the KNB is Kazakhstan’s national security service.[1][2][3][4][5]He was tried at a specialised court in Aktobe.[1][2][3]
In court he said he found the bags of drugs along the Aktobe-Atyrau highway when
he got out of his car to relieve himself, and returned the next day to move them
to a car service station in Aktobe.[1][2][3][4][5]He told the court he recognised the
smell, feared criminal liability, but came back to earn money and pay off debts,
and said he committed the crime alone.[1][2][3][4]
A man called Ruslan agreed to buy the marijuana at 130,000 tenge per kilogram,
13 million tenge for the whole batch, and the man was detained after showing him
the goods.[1][2][3][4][5]
Case data
Every number and detail the sources state, with the sources that state it.
Arrested
1
Charged
1
Convicted
1
Sentenced
1
Cannabis
100 kg
Prison
6 years
Agencies
Комитет национальной безопасности (КНБ); специализированный суд в Актобе
Agency type
Other, Court
Cannabis
Herbal cannabis (100 kg)
Activity
Possession, Sale
Setting
Other building
Charge
хранение и продажа наркотиков (storing and selling drugs)
Case stage
Sentenced
Sentence
Prison
Force
No force reported
Region
Aktobe Region
Date
Publication date
Sources
Диапазонdiapazon.kzRUЖитель города Шу хотел продать в Актобе партию марихуаны за 13 миллионов тенге
Mail.KZmail.kzRUКазахстанец нашел мешки с марихуаной и решил подзаработать: чем все закончилось
Zakon.kzzakon.kzRUКазахстанец нашел мешки с марихуаной и решил подзаработать: чем все закончилось
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The article gives no date for the arrest, the trial or the sentencing; 8 November 2026 is its publication date and stands in for the incident date.
The court is named only as a specialised court in Aktobe, and it is not stated whether the six-year term was handed down at first instance or whether it can be appealed.
The charge is described only as storage and sale of drugs, without the article of the Criminal Code or the amount threshold applied.
The 100 kilograms is the amount offered for sale; the article does not say how it was weighed or whether laboratory testing confirmed it was marijuana.
The article says the drugs were moved to a car service station in Aktobe but does not say whether the station was searched or whether anyone else was suspected; the accused told the court he acted alone.
A KNB officer posed as a buyer, but no police or KNB statement of its own was found for this case.
No value estimate for the seized drugs beyond the 13 million tenge asking price was published, and no information on confiscation was given.
Astana TV's lead describes the case as an attempted sale and its headline puts the value at 13 million tenge, while the article body and the Diapazon original describe the charge as storage and sale of the drugs for that amount.
Astana TV credits Diapazon and reproduces its text without the quotes' attribution beyond the accused's court statement, so it is not an independent account; no KNB or court statement of its own was found.
The page's only image is captioned as an illustrative stock photo from om-saratov.ru and does not show this event.
Azattyq Rýhy credits the Aktobe outlet Diapazon and reproduces its account, so it is not independent reporting of the sentence.
Mail.KZ credits Zakon.kz and the Diapazon newspaper and reproduces Diapazon's text, so it is not independent reporting of the sentence.
The article gives no date for the arrest, trial or sentencing; 8 November 2026 is its publication date and is used as the incident date.
The article gives no Criminal Code article, plea, appeal prospects or confiscation details.
The page also reports a separate 2 November 2026 Almaty mephedrone laboratory bust, a different event not covered here.
The article gives no separate date for the arrest, trial or sentencing; 8 November 2026 is its publication date.
The page also reports a separate 2 November 2026 Almaty mephedrone laboratory bust, a different synthetic-drug event left out here.
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