Today, in the criminal trial of Bokaev, Zhuldyz Artykbaeva, director of We Can LLP, testified as a witness. She supported her testimony with financial documents and receipts. This was reported by Qazaqyia.kz citing Kursiv Media.

During the interrogation, it emerged that her company independently performed the entire scope of work for organizing the international car rally, while the second firm (BM Trust, registered to Bokaev's nephew) received tens of millions of tenge while effectively doing nothing.

Artykbaeva also recounted the origins of her firm. Before We Can LLP was created, Artykbaeva was listed at BM Trust, where Bokaev arranged for her to be employed. She never visited the company's office, and Bokaev paid her a salary of 150,000 tenge in cash. Later, it was Bokaev who gave her an address to register We Can LLP, instructing her to create the agency specifically to participate in KazTransGas tenders. She subsequently also personally brought the act of completed work for the car rally to Bokaev.

Artykbaeva stated that a contract worth 38 million tenge was concluded with her We Can LLP for organizing the car rally from Khorgos to Aktobe. According to her calculations, this sum was absolutely sufficient to cover all expenses.

When the prosecutor showed the witness a second contract concluded with BM Trust for more than 40 million tenge, Artykbaeva stated that she was seeing it for the first time. She was unaware of the existence of a parallel contract with the company of Madiyar Kalmenov, which allegedly also organized the car rally.

The witness meticulously proved, providing all transactions and receipts, that the entire Kazakhstani route from start to finish was organized by We Can LLP.

She hired regional managers, paid for hotels, meals, catering (down to paper towels), washing and refueling of all vehicles in the convoy. She personally designed the stickers, ordered and paid for all equipment for participants (jackets, trousers, T-shirts, caps, and even sneakers).

Artykbaeva rented equipment, hired translators, bought water and cigarettes, paid for the return of equipment from Russia to Almaty, and fully organized an environmental campaign to plant personalized trees. After the project's completion, she held a thank-you dinner in Astana for KazTransGas management at her own expense. For her impeccable organization, she was personally thanked by Russian and Chinese participants.

The witness emphasized that she covered all expenses herself. Artykbaeva even paid consular fees for visas for the car rally participants, including for Bokaev's nephew. According to her, Madiyar Kalmenov and Zhanbolat Maratov were participants in the convoy, not organizers. Moreover, the events listed in BM Trust's estimate were half carried out by Artykbaeva herself through We Can LLP, and the other half were not implemented.

The court paid special attention to two details that directly refute Bokaev's previous statements:

Despite the fact that BM Trust received 47 million tenge under a fictitious contract, according to Artykbaeva, Madiyar Kalmenov himself did not help with the organization and did not pay for anything.

Furthermore, the director of We Can LLP said she was forced to reimburse Kalmenov from her own budget a little over one million tenge (transferred to his card) for his expenses on the Kazakhstani convoy on the territory of China. In the same way, she reimbursed expenses for the Russian part of the project (accommodation of the Kazakhstani delegation) by sending money to Zhanbolat Maratov (a former subordinate of Bokaev), who had previously transferred BM Trust to Kalmenov on Bokaev's instructions. She sent this money also on Bokaev's direct instructions. The witness herself did not receive a single tenge from BM Trust.

In addition to the car rally, Artykbaeva revealed other financial schemes of Bokaev in which she was used as a transit link.

Bokaev asked her to receive money for his furniture company Art Romance on her personal card. Thus, she received more than 9 million tenge, which she handed over to Bokaev in cash on the same day or the next day.

On the direct instructions of the former adviser to the head of KazTransGas, Artykbaeva transferred money to the company Kun-Arai (owned by Bokaev's mother) allegedly for certain information stands. In addition, after the car rally, Bokaev transferred 1.5 million tenge to her from BM Trust's account and asked her to cash it, which she did, handing the money to him in person.

The witness confirmed that when signing the contract, she did not see any estimates. She carried out the multi-million tenge project entirely on her own, covering unforeseen expenses out of her own pocket, while the second company simply absorbed a similar budget.

Artykbaeva's testimony had such a strong effect on Bokaev's lawyers that they were not ready to ask questions immediately and were forced to ask the judge for a recess.

After the forced recess, Bokaev's lawyers limited themselves to only insignificant questions. For example, they demanded that the witness recall the name of the administrator of one of the restaurants in Shymkent.

The lawyers also asked Artykbaeva where the 11th iPhone seized from her earlier during the investigation was. Alma Musina stated that it should contain materials about BM Trust. To this, the witness calmly explained that this iPhone has no relation to the car rally – during the event, the 11th version had not even been released yet, and she bought this phone only two years later.