The court refused to change the place of serving the sentence to Aset Mataev, director general of the KazTAG news agency.

October 3, 2016 he was sentenced to 5 years in prison allegedly for fraud. The accusations against them were rejected on all counts, he did not fully acknowledge the blame.

On November 16, 2017, the Kapshagai City Court examined the application for parole of Aset Mataev, the head of the Union of Journalists of Kazakhstan and the president of the National Press Club Seytkazy Mataev, who was sentenced to six years.

He was charged under the article "Fraud" and "Evasion of payment of tax and other mandatory payments to the budget from organizations. On December 4, 2017, he was released from the colony.

“The Qazaq Times”