The love of beer is more expensive than freedom: the alimony worker was sent to the colony of Semey.

            A 38-year-old resident of Semey has not paid alimony to his two minor children for eleven years.

          As a result, the amount of debt amounted to about 8 million tenge. For evading the payment of alimony, the man was sentenced to one year of restriction of freedom with mandatory involvement in 100 hours of forced labor.

           The convict was registered with the probation service of the Zaton district of the city of Semey. Upon registration, the procedure and conditions of serving his sentence in the form of restriction of freedom were explained to him. However, despite the ongoing preventive work, the man repeatedly violated the established rules.: He did not show up for registration and left his place of residence at night.

           In this regard, an electronic tracking device was used to track his location. During the monitoring, probation officers repeatedly recorded his unauthorized exits from the house. The convict himself admitted that he went out for a beer or visited friends.

           Taking into account the repeated violations, the restriction of freedom was replaced by imprisonment for a period of eight months for the remaining period of punishment. 

            According to Yerlan Kadyrmanov, the head of the probation service of the Zaton district, electronic tracking devices have been used against 99 convicts in the Abai region since the beginning of the year. In respect of 19 of them who violated the conditions of serving their sentences, the materials were sent to the court to replace the restriction of freedom with imprisonment.

Source : https://www.gov.kz/memleket/entities/duisabai/press/news/details/1115710?lang=kk