State Bodies and Official Persons, Who Perform the Functions of Criminal Prosecution

- The procurator is an official person, who within the bounds of his authority, exercises the supervision of the legality of operative and investigative activities, interrogation, investigation and court decisions, as well as criminal prosecution at all stages of the criminal process: the General Procurator of the Republic of Kazakhstan, the Chief Military Procurator, procurators of provinces and procurators equated to procurators of provinces, district, municipal procurators, military procurators, transport procurators and procurators equated to those, their deputies and assistants, procurators for sectors of supervision, senior procurators and procurators of departments and units of procurator offices.

- The head of the investigation department – the head of investigation unit of the body that performs preliminary investigation, his deputies, who act within the bound of their authority.

- An investigator is an official person authorised to carry out preliminary investigation with regard to criminal cases within the bounds of his authorities: an investigator of the bodies of internal affairs, an investigator of the bodies of the national security and an investigator of the bodies of the tax police.

-  The Body of Interrogation

1) the bodies of internal affairs;

2) the bodies of national security;

4) the bodies of the tax police – with regard to cases of crimes associated with violation of tax, fiscal legislation, as well as legislation concerning licensing;

5) the customs bodies – with regard to cases of contraband and evasion of the payment of customs payments;

6) the bodies of military police – in cases of all crimes committed by military servicemen, who undergo military service under conscription or contracts at the Armed Forces of the Republic of Kazakhstan, other troops and military formations of the Republic of Kazakhstan;

citizens, who are reservists, during the time when they undergo military training; persons of civil personnel of military units, formations, institutions in connection with the performance by them of service duties or on the territory of those unit, formations and institutions;

7) commanders of frontier units – with regard to cases of violation of the legislation concerning the State frontier of the Republic of Kazakhstan, as well as on cases of crimes committed on the continental shelf of the Republic of Kazakhstan;

8) commanders of military units, formations, heads of military institutions and garrisons in cases that there is no body of military police – with regard to cases of all crimes committed by military servicemen subordinated to them, who undergo military service under conscription or contracts at the Armed Forces of the Republic of Kazakhstan, other troops and military formations of the Republic of Kazakhstan, as well as citizens, who are reservists during their undergoing military training; with regard to cases of crimes committed by persons of civil personnel of military units, formations, institutions in connection with their performance of their service duties or on the territory of those units, formations, institutions;

9) heads of diplomatic representations, consular institutions plenipotentiary representations of the Republic of Kazakhstan – with regard to cases of crimes committed by their employees in the country of their stay;

10) the bodies of State fire prevention service – with regard to cases of any crimes associated with fires.

 -  The Head of a Body of Interrogation The powers of the head of an interrogative body in  

the course of a pre-trial procedurewith regard to cases of crimes provided for by Criminal Procedural  Code, within the bounds of hisauthority shall rest with the head of the Main Department (Unit), department, unit, subdivisionand other subdivisions of the interrogative body.

- An inquest officer is an official person authorised to perform pre-trial procedures associated with criminal cases within the bounds of his authority.