ALMATY, Kazakhstan — As soon as a particularly highly effective man in Kazakhstan, Bolat Nazarbaev, the youthful brother of Kazakhstan’s first president, Nursultan Nazarbaev, died on November 13 on the age of 70, after reportedly struggling a prolonged sickness.
The spokeswoman of the Central Clinic in Almaty, Polina Shimanskaya, instructed RFE/RL that Bolat Nazarbaev was pronounced useless ”at 9:51 this morning after a protracted sickness.”
She didn’t elaborate however media studies have mentioned Nazarbaev was hospitalized earlier in November in Almaty after struggling a coronary heart assault.
In June 2022, native media mentioned Bolat Nazarbaev was combating a longtime sickness and a video exhibiting him in a wheelchair appeared on YouTube on the time.
The studies coincided with a press release from Kazakhstan’s Monetary Monitoring Company saying Bolat Nazarbaev and his former spouse, Maira Qurmanghalieva, have been focused by a lawsuit filed by the house owners of the monetary companies firm Karuan, who accused them of illegally taking up the agency.
In March, a court docket in Kazakhstan ordered Bolat Nazarbaev, who offered 31.9 p.c of the commercial facility’s shares to a personal firm in 2009 however continued to regulate the manufacturing unit’s operations, to regain the shares and return them to the state.
AZTM was once state property however was privatized in 1998 with 31.9 p.c of its shares obtained by the non-public firm Temir Kon. In 2007, Temir Kon offered the shares to Bolat Nazarbaev.
In 1986, Bolat Nazarbaev’s brother, Nursultan, who dominated the oil-rich Central Asian nation for practically 30 years earlier than he stepped down greater than 4 years in the past, mentioned in an interview to a Moscow-based Soviet journal, Druzhba narodov (Peoples’ Friendship), that his youthful brother labored as a plumber.
In 1989, after Nursultan Nazarbaev took over the then-Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic, Bolat Nazarbaev was already working as a deputy director of a state bakery within the city of Qaskelen. Throughout the a long time of his brother’s presidency, Bolat Nazarbaev grew to become one of many richest males within the nation and managed a number of main companies and marketplaces in Kazakhstan’s largest metropolis, Almaty, and the encompassing area.
Nursultan Nazarbaev, 83, and his clan misplaced energy and affect after January 2022 protests that left at the very least 238 folks, together with 19 legislation enforcement officers, useless and 1000’s injured.
As he stepped down, Nazarbaev hand-picked longtime ally Qasym-Zhomart Toqaev as his successor.
However he retained sweeping powers as the pinnacle of the Safety Council, having fun with the powers as ”elbasy” — the chief of the nation. Lots of his kinfolk continued to carry necessary posts within the authorities, safety companies, and worthwhile power teams.
In January 2022, protests that began over a gas worth hike unfold throughout Kazakhstan due to discontent over the cronyism that had lengthy plagued the nation. Toqaev subsequently stripped Nazarbaev of the Safety Council position, taking it over himself.
Toqaev additionally annulled the Regulation on the First President — the Chief of the Nation (Elbasy), depriving Nursultan Nazarbaev of the elbasy title and his rapid relations of authorized immunity.
Since January 2022, a number of of Nazarbaev’s kinfolk and others near the household have been pushed out of their positions or resigned.
In September 2022, the previous president’s nephew Qairat Satybaldy was sentenced to 6 years in jail on fraud and embezzlement expenses.