Kazakhstan plans automatic search for hidden income of alimony debtors

Kazakhstan plans to expand the automatic search for alimony debtors' income, Khabar 24 reports. Bailiffs would be able to obtain data on earnings from passenger transport, delivery, gambling and e-money operations. Currently such information must be requested manually, and replies can take months.

Some debtors officially appear unemployed or on minimum wages while working as taxi drivers or couriers. In Astana's Regional Chamber of Private Bailiffs, about 22,000 cases are pending, over 3,000 of them problematic. Prime Minister Olzhas Bektenov said in reply to a deputy's inquiry that integration with state information systems is under way. In the first nine months of this year, 356 such cases were sent to court.