May 21, 2026
At
a press conference in the government on May 21, 2026, Deputy Prime Minister of
Kazakhstan Kanat Bozumbayev told how the land issue will be resolved in the new
city of Alatau, the correspondent reports Zakon.kz .
Bozumbayev
recalled that any activity in Alatau will be carried out on the basis of a
business license.
"If
an entrepreneur is given a plot of land, for example, for the construction of a
hotel, then there will be time, investments, labor, but if he does not do it in
a certain period, the land will be taken back and the business license will be
suspended, then it will be revoked. No one will ever give land speculatively to
either a foreign or a domestic investor," he assured.
According
to him, in general, in Kazakhstan, land can be privately owned by a foreigner,
except for agricultural land.
"Approximately
the same thing will happen in Alatau: there will be no agricultural land, this
is a city and this is the urban land, gradually agricultural land
will be transferred to a different status. All other lands will be regulated by
constitutional law. Currently, 41% of the 88,000 hectares of land is privately owned, having been acquired through various means and changing hands from one owner to another. No one can restrict
the citizens of Kazakhstan from selling this land, if it is not agricultural
land, to a citizen or non–citizen of Kazakhstan," Bozumbayev added.
Another
question, he said, is how he will use it.
"If
he wants to build something there, for example, a casino. If it does not
correspond to the general plan of the city, then he will not build anything
like that there, if he does, then he can build, but on the basis of a business
license that he will receive from the Alatau City Authority. 41% of the land in
the city has long been private. The farmland is not private, it is
leased," the Deputy Prime Minister summed up.