OREANDA-NEWS. October 27, 2014. The draft law "On introducing amendments and additions to some legislative acts of Kazakhstan on further improvement of the system of public administration" was approved in first reading At the plenary session of the Senate.

"The bill is designed in accordance with the presidential decree on establishment of the Agency for Civil Service Affairs and Anti-Corruption (ACCAC). New organis hanged over the functions and powers of the civil service and anti-corruption sphere," Chairman of the Agency Kairat Kozhamzharov said presenting the bill.

According to him, proposed amendments, firstly, establishes lines of the authorities between the newly formed Agency and the Ministry of Finance in the framework of criminal and administrative processes. Currently, 16 articles on corruption crimes or 38 compositions belong toexclusive investigative jurisdiction of the Financial Police.