A vulnerability worth billions. How Russians passed through the filters of Kazakhstan's healthcare system.

Monthly contributions for health insurance are deducted from your salary. Miss a payment, and access to doctors is blocked in a second. Yet the same control system failed to notice how 13 billion tenge went to oncology care for Russians who were not entitled to this assistance. How did a hole in the issuance of individual identification numbers (IIN) turn into a critical vulnerability, and why is…