# 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](https://thewaronnews.com/incidents/2026-kazakhstan-copyright-claims-against-press)
- Source: From prosecutions to bans and spurious copyright claims: how Kazakhstan's journalists are being restricted. https://cpj.org/2026/08/from-prosecutions-to-bans-and-spurious-copyright-claims-how-kazakhstans-journalists-are-being-silenced/
- 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

Source page: https://thewaronnews.com/claims/554. The War On News, CC BY 4.0.