Claim 554

Scale of the business built around filing false complaints.

Published 2026-09-23. Last reviewed 2026-09-22. 1 source.

Statement: Scale of the business built around filing false complaints.
Field: effect_on_reporting
Value: Underground market charges up to $5,000 per false complaint
About: incident 2026-kazakhstan-copyright-claims-against-press
Source: From prosecutions to bans and spurious copyright claims: how Kazakhstan's journalists are being restricted
Publisher: Committee to Protect Journalists
Method: outlet report
Checked: 2026-09-22
Confidence: medium
Status: current
Source date: 2026-08-20

Quotation from the source

An underground market and agencies charging up to US$5,000 to file false complaints against the press