POLICE OFFICERS PROVOKE BUSINESSMEN TO SALE ALCOHOL AND CIGARETTES TO A PEOPLE UNDER 18
In Karaganda, shopkeepers caught the police in excessive efforts to solve administrative cases.
According to businessmen, the police use fake teenage minors to buy alcohol and tobacco products and then fine the sellers. Moreover, some schoolchildren are attracted by law enforcement officers to such “raids” several times.
“What kind of advanced work practices is this? Yes, we recognize that there are unintentional facts of sale to minors and we ourselves are not interested in our sellers doing this. But district police officers purposely send “over-aged” adolescents, who outwardly look much older, to the store and then come in and write out a fine,” - the entrepreneur Tleukan Oralbayev says.
Businessmen appealed to the Chamber of Entrepreneurs of the Karaganda region for help. Lawyers of the Chamber believe that the actions of the police in this case are contrary to the laws.
“In violation of Art. 16 of the Law "On Law Enforcement Service", police officers commit provocations. All this is done in order to create imaginary well-being in the service and artificially provide indicators. These actions contradict the basic principles of state policy and the Code of Ethics”, - said Yulia Oleinik, a lawyer at the Chamber of Entrepreneurs of the Karaganda region, stated.
The National Chamber of Entrepreneurs "Atameken" declares that the problem is much wider and concerns not only the Karaganda business. The fact is that the Entrepreneurial Code of the Republic of Kazakhstan makes an exception for such checks (subclause 16 of clause 3 of Article 140 of the Entrepreneural Code). This means that police checks are not registered in the prosecution authorities, and therefore there is no real information about their number and results. In this regard, on an ongoing basis, the question of the legality of such inspections and the lack of a mechanism to protect the rights of entrepreneurs arises.
“We intend to analyze this issue in detail with the prosecution authorities and include it in the joint Roadmap for 2019,” - the managing director of the department of public monitoring and work with administrative barriers of the NCE RK "Atameken" Yerbol Ustemirov said.
At the same time, the legislation of the Republic of Kazakhstan clearly regulates the ban on the sale of tobacco and alcohol products to persons under 18 and 21, respectively. Without stipulating how the buyers should or should not look like. In this regard, lawyers of the Chamber of Entrepreneurs of the Karaganda region advise sellers to ask for identity documents if there are doubts about the age of buyers.
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