Investigative Journalism: Corrupt Mafia of Majilis Speaker Nurlan Nigmatulin

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Nurlan Zayrullaevich Nigmatulin ( Kazakh  Nurlan Zayrollaұly Nyғmatulin;  August 31, 1962 ,  Karaganda ,  Kazakh SSR ,  USSR ) — Kazakh states­man and politi­cian, Doctor of Political Sciences, Chairman of the  Mazhilis of Parliament Of the Republic of Kazakhstan (since June 22, 2016). 

Clan “Skin”. On the polit­i­cal Olympus of Kazakhstan, today it is one of the most influ­en­tial clans. We can say that it was formed lit­er­al­ly out of noth­ing. The main rep­re­sen­ta­tives began to unite from about 2005–2006 and imper­cep­ti­bly began to gain strength. By 2017, they had become a very influ­en­tial clan in Kazakhstan. They all the time found a com­mon lan­guage with the pres­i­den­t’s rel­a­tives, always look­ing for a “way out” to them. Working with them, if they could not find a com­mon lan­guage, part­ing peace­ful­ly, they quick­ly switched to anoth­er rel­a­tive. After 2017, with the fil­ing of the pres­i­den­tial admin­is­tra­tion and the KNB, pres­sure began on their rep­re­sen­ta­tives. Proceeding from this, some mem­bers of the clan were relieved of their posts, some busi­ness­men left Kazakhstan. 

1.16.04.2021. The Nigmatulin clan is close­ly con­nect­ed with the ban­dits, among whom are the rep­re­sen­ta­tives of the Chechen dias­po­ra in Kazakhstan — this dias­po­ra “stands guard” of Vladimir Kim, a mem­ber of the “Korean group” and “ wal­let ” of Nursultan Nazarbayev. Kim,  as you know,  is the nom­i­nal co-own­er of Kazakhmys Corporation LLP and its London branch KAZ Minerals, who has now  retired from oper­a­tional man­age­ment  due to poor-qual­i­ty man­age­ment caused by sys­tem­at­ic drunk­en­ness, rumors about which are spread­ing in the sec­re­tari­at of the cor­po­ra­tion itself. The real man­age­ment of all cop­per and zinc in Kazakhstan is cur­rent­ly con­cen­trat­ed in their hands by Oleg Novachuk and Eduard Ogay. Kim and Nigmatullina are also unit­ed by their “god­fa­ther” who  lives in Russia and hav­ing Russian cit­i­zen­ship — Tair Mansurov. Mansurov is the for­mer sec­re­tary of the EurAsEC, the ex-ambas­sador of Kazakhstan to Russia and the ex-akim of the North Kazakhstan region, who enjoyed the patron­age of such prox­ies of the Elbasy as Vladimir Ni and Nurtai Abykayev. The lat­ter was called a key fig­ure of the “ Shaprashta clan ”, despite the fact that evil tongues still refer to his Kyrgyz ori­gin, as well as the real cus­tomer and orga­niz­er of the mur­der of oppo­si­tion politi­cian Altynbek Sarsenbayev. https://t.me/nursolovej/1200

2.16.06.2017. It became known that one of the key polit­i­cal fig­ures in Akorda, name­ly the chair­man of the Mazhilis of the Parliament of the Republic of Kazakhstan Nurlan Nigmatulin, lost access to the head of state and “leader of the nation” Nursultan Nazarbayev. According to our sources, the rea­son for the dis­grace was that Nigmatullin’s match­mak­er, a well-known entre­pre­neur Dinmukhamet Idrisov (11th place in the list of the rich­est busi­ness­men in Kazakhstan accord­ing to Forbes Kazakhstan mag­a­zine), in one of his tele­phone con­ver­sa­tions, inad­ver­tent­ly called Nurlan Zayrullaevich the next “zero first “, Which was record­ed by” those who lis­ten. ” https://kz.expert/ru/materials/insayd/434_opala_nigmatulina

3.16.04.2021. At the end of last year, Yerlan Nigmatulin  pre­sent­ed  his new fer­roal­loy plant in Karaganda (sup­plied with cheap elec­tric­i­ty from a ther­mal pow­er sta­tion owned by the match­mak­er of the speak­er of the Mazhilis — the oli­garch Dinmukhamed Idrisov, this enter­prise turned out to be com­pet­i­tive in the inter­na­tion­al mar­ket and brings its own­er huge rev­enue). Yerlan Nigmatulin plans to build two more such enter­pris­es in Karaganda, which will auto­mat­i­cal­ly make him one of the coun­try’s lead­ing entre­pre­neurs. https://t.me/nursolovej/1199

4.2019.10.16. “We have no access to the text [of the exper­tise],” says promi­nent Kazakhstani human rights activist Yevgeny Zhovtis. — The tri­al was held with­out a lawyer, although there was an appoint­ed lawyer, but dur­ing the tri­al he was not in the city. Natalya’s daugh­ter was rec­og­nized as the defend­er, while the daugh­ter was not allowed to see the results of the exam­i­na­tion. The court of first instance refused to con­duct an inde­pen­dent psy­chi­atric exam­i­na­tion. We have no infor­ma­tion on what grounds the court ruled on com­pul­so­ry treat­ment. Is there a direct indi­ca­tion in the psy­chi­a­trist’s report that Ms. Ulasik pos­es a threat to oth­ers or to her­self? It turns out to be a strange sit­u­a­tion: before the ini­ti­a­tion of a crim­i­nal libel case, she did not pose a threat. Then she refused to under­go an exam­i­na­tion, then she was forcibly exam­ined and sud­den­ly found out, that she needs com­pul­so­ry treat­ment in a closed insti­tu­tion. I have every rea­son to believe that we are deal­ing with signs of puni­tive psy­chi­a­try. We will insist on an inde­pen­dent exam­i­na­tion with the main ques­tion: whether it pos­es a threat to itself and oth­ers. ” Natalia Ulasik is known as the author of crit­i­cal posts on social net­works. Her pub­li­ca­tions could well “strain” the local author­i­ties, the Bureau.kz web­site notes. https://bureau.kz/publ-all/iz_drugikh_istochnikov/ne_soiti_by_vsem_nam_s_uma/

The begin­ning of the per­se­cu­tion of Zinaida Mukhortova coin­cides with the begin­ning of her con­flict with the deputy of the Kazakh par­lia­ment Yerlan Nigmatulin and lawyer Noila Rozhentseva.

“Over the past 7–8 years, Mukhortova’s patient has been con­stant­ly writ­ing com­plaints. … It dis­cred­its civ­il ser­vants and politi­cians ”. Mukhortova’s defense was sup­port­ed by:  Human Rights Watch ,  Front Line Defenders ,  The Council of Bars and Law Societies of Europe ,  Ordre des avo­cats de Paris ,  International Commission of Jurists ) ,  Dutch non-gov­ern­men­tal orga­ni­za­tion Lawyers for Lawyers ,  Kazakhstan International Bureau for Human Rights and Rule of Law , MEP  Niccolo Rinaldi,  and human rights defend­ers from Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Poland, and Tajikistan.

5.26.09.2019. CLAN “NORTHERN”. The house and plot of the speak­er of the Mazhilis Nurlan Nigmatulin in the cap­i­tal of Kazakhstan can be safe­ly called lux­u­ri­ous. It has its own post office, a pri­vate ten­nis court, a foun­tain, a pond, a secu­ri­ty post, and a foot­ball field. Journalists do not even dare to name at least the approx­i­mate cost of Nurlan Nigmatulin’s cot­tage, but even accord­ing to the most con­ser­v­a­tive esti­mates, the visu­al val­ue of the speak­er’s prop­er­ty is mil­lions of dol­lars! Nurlan Nigmatulin and his twin broth­er Yerlan are from the Karaganda region. Nurlan Nigmatulin is also the head of the Karaganda clan, which, in addi­tion to the broth­ers them­selves, includes pros­e­cu­tor Zhakip Asanov and busi­ness­man Dinmukhamet Idrisov. The Karaganda clan is one of the most influ­en­tial in Kazakhstan. 
https://kompromat1.pro/articles/130229-glava_karagandinskogo_klana_nurlan_nigmatulin_i_ego_roskoshj

6.20.04.2017. However, the prob­lems of local busi­ness will inevitably become those of Akorda. The fact is that the Karaganda region is not only vast and locat­ed next to the cap­i­tal, it is also com­plex in its inter­nal polit­i­cal con­fig­u­ra­tion. This means that entre­pre­neurs, from whom Nurlan Nigmatulin’s “guys” are now tak­ing mon­ey and often the busi­ness itself, will start look­ing for ways out to the ene­mies of their abuser. Plus, there are enough ene­mies at the very head of the Mazhilis, and some of them have a lot of pow­er. It can be pre­dict­ed that with­in one year, two Nurlan Nigmatulin and his twin broth­er will be open­ly accused of raid­ing, that is, seiz­ing some­one else’s busi­ness and prop­er­ty and col­lect­ing ille­gal tax­es from entre­pre­neurs. However, the key may be the accu­sa­tion of orga­niz­ing the theft of cop­per from the Balkhash cop­per plant of the Kazakhmys cor­po­ra­tion and its smug­gling to China. The trou­ble is that this case is not an iso­lat­ed one. After some time, the sit­u­a­tion may repeat itself in oth­er regions, where, by appoint­ing new akims and thus solv­ing cur­rent per­son­nel prob­lems, the pres­i­dent unwit­ting­ly cre­at­ed a sit­u­a­tion where his new appointees would “mas­ter” the local econ­o­my and try to redi­rect cash flows into the hands of their peo­ple. … https://kz.expert/ru/materials/insayd/441_medniy_biznes_nigmatulinih

7.25.09.2020. Eleven years of impris­on­ment was  request­ed by the pros­e­cu­tor in rela­tion to Zhomart Ertayev  in the case of fraud  in JSC “BANK RBK” and JSC “Qazaq ban­ki”. Earlier, Ertaev  ful­ly admit­ted guilt in orga­niz­ing the embez­zle­ment 144 bil­lion tenge. This is how the tri­al ends, which was actu­al­ly held in secret, with­out spe­cial atten­tion from the press and online authors, one way or anoth­er con­trolled by the Ministry of Information and Social Development of the Republic of Kazakhstan. Indifference in the kazet is dic­tat­ed by the fact that a large num­ber of rep­re­sen­ta­tives of the polit­i­cal and busi­ness elite of Kazakhstan were imme­di­ate­ly involved in the high-pro­file case with the with­draw­al of funds in favor of the com­pa­ny of Dariga Nazarbayeva and Nurlan Nigmatulin “Alma Holding”. In addi­tion to the afore­men­tioned Nazarbayeva and Nigmatulin, com­pro­mis­ing infor­ma­tion about Kairat Sharipbayev, Vladimir Kim, Bakytzhan Sagintayev and Dinmukhamed Idrisov could have been heard at the tri­al. Previously  paid atten­tionthat the only media out­let that reg­u­lar­ly attend­ed the court ses­sions was “Informburo”, owned by Bolat Utemuratov. Obviously, this is dic­tat­ed by the fact that in this way Utemuratov part­ly set­tles scores with a num­ber of his ene­mies and com­peti­tors, how­ev­er, in the pub­li­ca­tions of the Information Bureau, the true ben­e­fi­cia­ries of the fraud­u­lent schemes of Zhomart Ertayev’s team — Nazarbayev and Nigmatulin, and the defen­dants’ fam­i­ly ties have nev­er been named; so, Igor Mazhinov is the son-in-law of Vladimir Kim, and Bakhyt Ibragim is the for­mer then Bakytzhan Sagintayev (the divorce is con­sid­ered fic­ti­tious — his goal is not to “cast a shad­ow” on the cur­rent akim of Almaty). The tri­al of Zhomart Ertaev itself was inter­rupt­ed for sev­er­al months and resumed only after the  decree Kasym-Zhomart Tokayev on the ter­mi­na­tion of pow­ers of the speak­er of the Senate Dariga Nazarbayeva. This res­ig­na­tion seri­ous­ly weak­ened Nazarbayeva’s abil­i­ty to put pres­sure on the court, but, nev­er­the­less, there are seri­ous doubts that one of the key per­sons involved in this case (not to men­tion its founders) will bear real respon­si­bil­i­ty. # we will write that cer­tain agree­ments have been reached by the  ben­e­fi­cia­ries of the fraud in JSC “BANK RBK” and JSC “Qazaq ban­ki” with lawyers work­ing in the case, who, in turn, over the past four months of the process did not allow any infor­ma­tion leak­age that appeared in 700 vol­umes of this case, and also that there were cer­tain behind-the-scenes agree­ments … So, in the course of the agree­ment reached with the Chairman of the Supreme Court Zhakip Asanov, peo­ple from Nurlan Nigmatulin’s entourage com­plete­ly escaped respon­si­bil­i­ty: the actu­al cura­tor of the fraud­u­lent scheme, Nigmatulin’s match­mak­er Dinmukhamed Idrisov (co-founder of the bank and own­er of Alma-TV — lat­er entered the dock) in “Alma Group” and  is the largest media asset of  Dariga Nazarbayeva) and Nigmatulin’s son — Nurkhan Nurlanov, for­mer deputy board of JSC “BANK RBK”). Although,  as you knowIt was Idrisov who fic­ti­tious­ly bought Alma-TV from Nazarbayeva for 250 mil­lion US dol­lars — the funds were bor­rowed from AO BANK RBK, which was owned by Idrisov and Nazarbayev (rep­re­sent­ing Nigmatulin’s inter­ests there). And it was Idrisov who hired Zhomart Ertayev, who actu­al­ly became the head of both banks — JSC “BANK RBK” and JSC “Qazaq ban­ki” Ertayev per­son­al­ly). https://t.me/nursolovej/850

8. 28.09.2016. Majilis speak­er Nurlan Nigmatulin did not respond to accu­sa­tions of raid­ing, which were voiced in court by Seitkazy Matayev, head of the Union of Journalists of Kazakhstan. The tri­al in the case of Seitkaza and Aset Mataev, accused of finan­cial crimes, is com­ing to an end. Supporters of the Mataevs fear that the ver­dict will be guilty. https://rus.azattyq.org/a/kazakhstan-mataev-nigmatullin/28018623.html

9.05.2020. Bersebaev played a key role in the crim­i­nal pros­e­cu­tion in 2016 of the chair­man of the union of jour­nal­ists Seitkaza Matayev and his son Aset, the gen­er­al direc­tor of the KazTAG agency. The per­se­cu­tion was car­ried out by the  speak­er of the Mazhilis Nurlan Nigmatulin, but the key role was played by Abaev’s depart­ment, which accept­ed the work on state orders car­ried out by the KazTAG agency, and direct­ly Bersebaev, who signed all the “fake” acts of work per­formed and tes­ti­fied against the Mataevs in exchange for the oppor­tu­ni­ty to avoid the crim­i­nal per­se­cu­tion. https://t.me/nursolovej/620

10. 07.01.2020. The media report­ed that before leav­ing his post as akim of Almaty, Baibek gave the oppor­tu­ni­ty to anoth­er com­pa­ny con­trolled by Nurlan Nigmatulin and Dinmukhamet Idrisov — Green Bus Company — to write off about 250 bus­es that the aki­mat hand­ed over to the com­pa­ny and orga­nize a bank­rupt­cy process, there­by hid­ing traces of theft in the amount of 14 bil­lion tenge. https://compromatkz.wiki/bauyrzhan-baybek/537.html

11.27.11.2020. The rea­son for Nigmatulin’s dis­like of social net­works and smart­phones lies in the fact that 2016 was marked by numer­ous “leaks” of doc­u­ments that did not dis­close his activ­i­ties in the AP in the best light. It was then that Nigmatulin was able  to jail the  chair­man of the union of jour­nal­ists Seitkaza Matayev and his son Aset, the gen­er­al direc­tor of the KazTAG agency. In addi­tion, with the sup­port of Abaev, Nigmatulin man­aged to defeat the National Press Club (Nigmatulin claimed the prop­er­ty of the club in the cen­ter of Almaty and Astana, and Abaev “cleaned out” a com­peti­tor to the CCC he super­vis­es), as well as the news­pa­per “Central Asian Monitor” (was tak­en from Bigelda Gabdulin and reas­signed direct­ly to the Presidential Administration) and the Radiotochka por­tal (edi­tor-in-chief Bekzhan Idrisov, who had nev­er been in the oppo­si­tion, fled to the United States, where he received polit­i­cal asy­lum). https://t.me/nursolovej/368

We live in a real­i­ty where Nurlan Nigmatulin or any oth­er per­son with the same polit­i­cal weight can real­ly “order” a crim­i­nal case if there is some­thing to cling to, and if not for some­thing, then — at least — com­pli­cate life. Where the pros­e­cu­tor defends the sus­pect in the rape of the akim’s son, and he wit­ness­es the rape in his own house. Where the judge can be prompt­ed or even ordered the nec­es­sary deci­sion — it began with polit­i­cal tri­als almost 20 years ago, and even then it was nec­es­sary to learn the English proverb: if today you play with the law, then tomor­row the law will play a trick on you. https://rus.azattyq.org/a/kazakhstan-blog-bazhkenova-mataev/28031570.html

12. 19.09.2019 Speaker of the Mazhilis Nurlan Nigmatulin yes­ter­day at a ple­nary meet­ing dur­ing the approval of the bill “On the rat­i­fi­ca­tion of the Treaty between the Republic of Kazakhstan and Ukraine on extra­di­tion” actu­al­ly con­firmed the  recent pub­li­ca­tion of the  YouTube chan­nel “BASE” about his son Nurzhan Nurlanov who bought for 80 mil­lion US dol­lars pri­vate jet Boeing Business Jet. Nigmatulin called for the extra­di­tion of the Sadykov fam­i­ly — oppo­si­tion activists and jour­nal­ists, the authors of the BASE chan­nel who received polit­i­cal asy­lum in Ukraine. As we already  wrote,  Nurlan Nigmatulin and his twin broth­er Yerlan are pri­mar­i­ly known as mem­bers of orga­nized crime groups, not politi­cians. Therefore, when one of them demands the extra­di­tion of polit­i­cal refugees, he does not think how this can affect the inter­na­tion­al image of Kazakhstan. https://t.me/nursolovej/277

Well, there are those who have not been extra­dit­ed for more than a year, how are they with them? — asked the chair­man of the mazhilis  Nurlan Nigmatulin . — We see that a cou­ple ran away alone, like autumn-spring — they get excit­ed, appar­ent­ly, they car­ry all sorts of non­sense, and we all watch on YouTube, some­thing else. Condemned — here they are, to account. Why are we still unable to (arrange) the extra­di­tion of our citizens?

It is pre­cise­ly this treaty that has its legal effect on sub­se­quent (extra­di­tion requests), here is exact­ly the prin­ci­ple when it has retroac­tive effect. How we will rat­i­fy it — will apply to those who have been hid­ing abroad for a long time, — assured the Deputy Prosecutor General.

Let’s! There is an oppor­tu­ni­ty today, rat­i­fi­ca­tion will take place, we have good agree­ments with oth­er states, includ­ing Ukraine. It is nec­es­sary to car­ry out (extra­di­tion). There must be a clear inevitabil­i­ty of pun­ish­ment. Then peo­ple will have respon­si­bil­i­ty before the law, — con­clud­ed Nigmatulin. https://forbes.kz//process/nigmatulin_ob_ekstraditsii_iz_ukrainyi_sbejala_parochka_erundu_nesut_vsyakuyu_osudili_-_syuda_ih_k_otvetstvennosti/

According to Arman Shuraev, a mem­ber of the National Council of Public Trust (NCPC) and a well-known media man­ag­er, the speak­er of the majilis Nurlan Nigmatulin, when he was the head of the pres­i­den­tial admin­is­tra­tion of Kazakhstan, “stran­gled” the tra­di­tion­al media, reports  Kz.Media . https://kaztag.kz/ru/news/nigmatulin-v-svoe-vremya-zadushil-traditsionnye-smi-poetomu-im-ne-doveryayut-chlen-nsod

13. 20.12.2009 Every fact of cor­rup­tion, cov­ered in the media (media), should become the basis for the res­ig­na­tion of an offi­cial impli­cat­ed in this fact. Deputy Chairman of the par­ty Nurlan Nigmatulin announced this today at the 12th meet­ing of the Republican Public Council for Combating Corruption under the Nur Otan PDP, the agency reports. “We must ensure that every fact of cor­rup­tion, cov­ered in the media, must become the basis for the res­ig­na­tion of an offi­cial, or he must defend his hon­or and dig­ni­ty in court …” — N. Nigmatulin said. The first deputy chair­man also not­ed that the par­ty intends to res­olute­ly inten­si­fy the fight against cor­rup­tion. “This strength­en­ing, in our opin­ion, will be car­ried out in sev­er­al direc­tions: first­ly, the main efforts of the par­ty to fight cor­rup­tion should be con­cen­trat­ed in the regions. Locally, the most vis­i­ble are those spheres where cor­rup­tion is active­ly man­i­fest­ed, where offi­cials are “not clean on hand”, or inter­ests are lob­bied, pro­tec­tion­ism appears when mov­ing up the career lad­der, ”he clar­i­fied. According to him, today not all region­al coun­cils for com­bat­ing cor­rup­tion show adher­ence to prin­ci­ples in this direc­tion. In this regard, the deputy chair­man of the par­ty said: “Just a meet­ing, or just con­sid­er­a­tion with­out con­crete results will be assessed as inac­tion of the work of region­al coun­cils, includ­ing region­al par­ty orga­ni­za­tions.” “Such coun­cils only dis­cred­it the work of the par­ty,” he stressed. “We still do not suf­fi­cient­ly use mea­sures to increase the par­ty respon­si­bil­i­ty of par­ty mem­bers who allow cor­rup­tion in the col­lec­tives they lead. Party con­trol com­mit­tees need to cre­ate demand from such lead­ers — par­ty mem­bers. Anti-cor­rup­tion coun­cils need to inform the rel­e­vant par­ty bod­ies about the facts of cor­rup­tion, ”the deputy chair­man of the par­ty rec­om­mend­ed. “I want to remind you once again that the decree of the head of state defines very clear and spe­cif­ic mea­sures in rela­tion to civ­il ser­vants who have com­mit­ted an offense and the reac­tion of pub­lic coun­cils, if there are par­ty mem­bers among them, should be imme­di­ate,” he con­clud­ed (https://www.kt.kz/rus/politics/kazhdij_fakt_korrupcii_osveshtennij_v_smi_dolzhen_statj_osnovaniem_otstavki_chinovnika_nigmatulin_1153505657.html).

14. 03/01/2016 “The Zhamaliev case” was cooked up in AKORD. The per­son­al­i­ty of Zhamaliev nat­u­ral­ly evokes noth­ing but pity and dis­gust in me, all active par­ty-goers in Astana know about his spree, rude­ness and immoral behav­ior. But a per­son who has risen from scratch in the cru­el world of busi­ness in mod­ern Kazakhstan, earn­ing a decent for­tune and hav­ing such a cir­cle of acquain­tances can­not be so stu­pid­ly sub­sti­tut­ed because of the jerk who alleged­ly showed signs of atten­tion to him, with­out com­pe­tent sup­port from out­side. What I will describe now can­not be called an ordi­nary rub­bish, with all the desire. As the great Stanislavsky said: “I do not believe!” It was a spe­cial oper­a­tion. So … One evening, in one of the restau­rants of Kairat Zhamaliev, Nurzhan Nigmatullin (born in 1988, the eldest son of NURLAN NIGMATULLIN, the head of the Presidential Administration of the Republic of Kazakhstan) wan­dered into, already pret­ty drunk. Now his sur­name has been changed to Nurlanov Nurzhan Nurlanovich … As a result of all this, Zhumaliev’s friend, deputy of the Presidential Administration Gabidulla Abdrakhimov was fired, and Nurlan Zairulaevich Nigmatulin’s faith­ful ally was appoint­ed to work in Nur Otan, Kumar Irgibaevich Aksakalov. Who cares, punch out the dates of work there for both. (https://zagranburo.org/%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BB%D0%BE-%D0%B6%D0%B0%D0%BC%D0%B0%D0%BB%D0%B8%D0%B5%D0%B2%D0%B0-%D1%81%D0%BE%D1%81%D1%82%D1%80%D1%8F%D0%BF%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%BE-%D0%B2-%D0%B0%D0%BA%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%B4%D0%B5/).

15. 17.12.2019 In Almaty, the tri­al of Zhomart Ertaev began in the case of fraud of JSC BANK RBK and JSC Qazaq ban­ki with the with­draw­al of funds in favor of the com­pa­ny Dariga Nazarbayeva and Nurlan Nigmatulin Alma Holding (about the sit­u­a­tion with JSC BANK RBK “And Ertaev, we wrote sep­a­rate­ly and in detail: Case of JSC” BANK RBK ”  part no. 1 ,  part no. 2 ,  part no. 3 ,  part no . 4 ).

In addi­tion to Ertayev him­self, there are 36 peo­ple in the dock accused of embez­zling 144 bil­lion tenge, anoth­er 54 employ­ees of the bank appear as sus­pects. During the  first meet­ing held on December 12 jus­tice worked selec­tive­ly and left in cus­tody all the “non-rel­a­tives” of the main ben­e­fi­cia­ries of the large-scale fraud — the speak­er of the Senate and the daugh­ter of Elbasy Dariga Nazarbayeva, the speak­er of the Mazhilis Nurlan Nigmatulin and the oli­garch Vladimir Kim.

The only detained rel­a­tive of the high-rank­ing offi­cial was Bakhyt Ibrahim, the for­mer son-in-law of the cur­rent akim of Almaty, for­mer­ly Prime Minister Bakytzhan Sagintayev, who was pre­vi­ous­ly extra­dit­ed from Germany. In addi­tion to him, 8 more peo­ple will remain in cus­tody, includ­ing Zhomart Ertaev.

However, the names of the peo­ple who actu­al­ly stole 144 bil­lion tenge from JSC “BANK RBK” did not sound dur­ing the court ses­sion (they are not even on the list of sus­pects), and this (besides Sagintayev’s son-in-law): direct­ly Dariga Nazarbayeva through the First President’s Fund, her com­mon-law hus­band Kairat Sharipbayev, match­mak­er and son of Nurlan Nigmatulin — Dinmukhamet Idrisov and Nurkhan Nurlanov, son-in-law of Vladimir Kim Igor Mazhinov and close to the “Eurasian group” (Mashkevich-Shodiev-Ibragimov) Farid Lyukhudzyaev.

Nevertheless, the inves­ti­ga­tion is well aware of the scheme of the car­ried out fraud, which con­sist­ed in the fact that the monop­o­list in the cable TV mar­ket — Alma TV, owned by Dariga Nazarbayeva —  was fic­ti­tious­ly sold to her. Dinmukhamet Idrisov on a loan from JSC “BANK RBK” (the val­ue of the trans­ac­tion was USD 250 mil­lion), which was owned by Nazarbayeva and Nigmatulin her­self.

Interestingly, both Alma TV and JSC BANK RBK were man­aged by Zhomart Ertayev, although he was for­mal­ly list­ed as an advi­sor (being pre­vi­ous­ly con­vict­ed of fraud in Alliance Bank JSC by a court sen­tence, he could not hold man­age­r­i­al posi­tions). Now it is on this basis (he was list­ed as an advi­sor with­out the right to sign) Ertayev hopes to evade respon­si­bil­i­ty. But in Russia, from where Ertayev was extra­dit­ed, the pro­hi­bi­tion of the Kazakh court did not work, and it was there that he head­ed Alma Group and trans­ferred all the funds stolen from JSC BANK RBK and Qazaq Banki (the tri­al in the case of Qazaq Banki is still pend­ing) …

This fraud­u­lent chain was pri­mar­i­ly need­ed by Dariga Nazarbayeva: while apply­ing for the pres­i­den­cy in the future, she need­ed large legal­ized sums out­side Kazakhstan (in Europe and Russia) to pay for the ser­vices of inter­na­tion­al PR agen­cies and bribe Russian and European politi­cians in exchange for pub­lic sup­port … For these pur­pos­es, for exam­ple, about 600 mil­lion US dol­lars were laun­dered in Austrian banks  for a sec­ond pass­port  in the name of Dariga Aliyeva.

Ertayev’s posi­tion is rather sad, giv­en that dur­ing the first ses­sion he tried to attract as the main sus­pect Dinmukhamet Idrisov — match­mak­er of the speak­er of the Mazhilis Nurlan Nigmatulin, in whose favor the mon­ey was legal­ly with­drawn, but the court remained deaf to these argu­ments, giv­en the increased role of Nigmatulin him­self.

In addi­tion, they say that the first deputy head of the AP of Kazakhstan Darkhan Kaletayev received an order accord­ing to which its  team of blog­gers  should in every way to ignore the top­ic tri­al Yertayev and the whole thing AO «BANK RBK» (because it Yertayev  was the founder and long time kept  “Bloggers Alliance Kazakhstan ”). So, the first court ses­sion was also ignored by the self-styled head of the self-styled alliance of blog­gers Galym Baytuk and Zhanna Ilyicheva, Syrym Abdrakhmanov and Murat Abenov.

In order to min­i­mize the atten­tion of the media, blog­gers and their audi­ence to the process in the case of JSC “BANK RBK”, the tri­al will take place quick­ly and dur­ing the New Year hol­i­days (December 26 and 30, as well as January 6) ( https://t.me/ nur­solovej / 389 ).

16. 28.05.2020 Resumed (inter­rupt­ed due to the intro­duced ( https://t.me/Uzynqulaq/525 ) “state of emer­gency”) tri­al of Zhomart Ertayev in the case of fraud ( https://t.me/Uzynqulaq/406 ) JSC “BANK RBK” and JSC “Qazaq ban­ki”. The process, inter­rupt­ed for sev­er­al months, became not only a kind of “respite” for the defen­dants, but also coin­cid­ed with the ter­mi­na­tion of the pow­ers ( https://t.me/Uzynqulaq/618 ) of the Speaker of the Senate Dariga Nazarbayeva. The res­ig­na­tion of Elbasy’s daugh­ter was obvi­ous­ly the result of a “big bar­gain­ing”, and her depar­ture (tem­po­rary, as we wrote ear­li­er ( https://t.me/Uzynqulaq/639) — she can take the post of Secretary of State or the post of Minister of Foreign Affairs) took place thanks to numer­ous con­ces­sions, includ­ing in favor of her civ­il hus­band Kairat Sharipbayev, whom she active­ly pro­mot­ed ( https://t.me/Uzynqulaq/606 ) to the post Chairman of the Board of Directors of JSC NC “KazMunayGas” and who, as a result, may head “KazTransGas” as a sep­a­rate nation­al com­pa­ny ( https://t.me/Uzynqulaq/655 ). Despite the fact that on January 6, Ertayev ful­ly admit­ted his guilt in orga­niz­ing the theft ( https://t.me/Uzynqulaq/121) 144 bil­lion tenge, he was nev­er sen­tenced, and hav­ing resumed the process, the court decid­ed to final­ly get rid of pub­lic­i­ty in this case. At the moment when the hear­ings on episodes relat­ed to the con­clu­sion of agree­ments between the bank and the qua­si-pub­lic sec­tor were sup­posed to begin, that is, exact­ly when the schemes of embez­zle­ment of bud­get funds should be announced, a few jour­nal­ists were denied “pres­ence” at the online process ( https : //informburo.kz/novosti/sudya-otkazal-v-prisutstvii-zhurnalistov-na-onlayn-zasedanii-po-delu-ertaeva.html ). Moreover, this was done at the request of Ertayev him­self. In addi­tion to Ertaev, in January they plead­ed guilty ( https://t.me/Uzynqulaq/406) and oth­er key per­sons involved in the case: Bakhyt Ibragim — the for­mer son-in-law of Almaty akim Bakytzhan Sagintayev (Sagintayev him­self was removed from the blow due to the fic­ti­tious divorce), Igor Mazhinov — the son-in-law of Vladimir Kim (only par­tial­ly admit­ted his guilt). Another 36 peo­ple and 54 bank employ­ees ( https://t.me/Uzynqulaq/389 ) appear as sus­pects and do not play a big role in the process, the court does not even inform whether they admit­ted their guilt or not, the fate of these peo­ple is all The par­ties to the process are inter­est­ed in “inso­far as”, it is obvi­ous that they are only need­ed to tes­ti­fy and in order for at least some­one to even­tu­al­ly serve. At the time of Ertayev’s recog­ni­tion, the only ques­tion was to divert from respon­si­bil­i­ty the mem­bers of the “Shaprashta clan ( https://t.me/Uzynqulaq/329 )”, “the Karaganda clan (https://t.me/Uzynqulaq/406 ) “in the per­son of the speak­er of the Mazhilis Nurlan Nimatulin with his son Nurkhan Nurlanov and the mul­ti­mil­lion­aire match­mak­er Dinmukhamet Idrisov, and oth­er rel­a­tives and con­fi­dants, and at the same time avoid­ing claims to com­pen­sate for dam­age (Ertayev at one time and did not com­pen­sate for the dam­age in the case of the dis­ap­peared ( https://t.me/Uzynqulaq/399 ) from Alliance Bank JSC 900 mil­lion US dol­lars, as well as the ben­e­fi­cia­ry of that fraud, Margulan Seisembayev). But, appar­ent­ly, now we are see­ing anoth­er turn in busi­ness and as a result, Zhomart Ertaev him­self will once again leave respon­si­bil­i­ty. Ertayev him­self, of course, is “fat-free”, there is noth­ing to recov­er from him, but his expe­ri­ence in hid­ing assets can always be used ( https://t.me/nursolovej/659 ).

17. 11.01.2021 Brotherly: Aidarbek Saparov’s broth­er receives sub­si­dies worth hun­dreds of mil­lions … It is easy to cal­cu­late that over the past two years, Altynbek Saparov’s busi­ness has been sup­port­ed by the bud­get of Kazakhstan for a total of 713.5 mil­lion tenge. ( https://kazakh-zerno.net/177210-po-bratski-brat-ajdarbeka-saparova-poluchaet-subsidii-na-sotni-millionov/ ).

18. 03/14/2017 Daulbaev raised the author­i­ty of the pros­e­cu­tor’s office to unprece­dent­ed heights, but … Suddenly he was replaced by Zhakip Asanov. According to var­i­ous experts, Asanov was a mem­ber of at least three teams — Danial Akhmetov, Dinmukhamet Idrisov and Nurlan Nigmatulin. Although, accord­ing to oth­er esti­mates, we are talk­ing about the same team. ( https://365info.kz/2017/03/lyudi-prezidenta-generalnyj-prokuror ).

19. 11/29/2018 The Nigmatulin broth­ers pri­va­tized almost the entire Bolkhash, all more or less large objects in this city. They squeezed out busi­ness in Karaganda and Zhezkazgan, main­ly with the help of secu­ri­ty offi­cials, some­times using con­nec­tions in the crim­i­nal world. They even had their own unof­fi­cial rep­re­sen­ta­tive in the Karaganda region, who col­lect­ed mon­ey from busi­ness­men. Thus, the Nigmatulins are a typ­i­cal mafia octo­pus that con­trols and receives its share from all prof­itable enter­pris­es of the Karaganda region https://mediaexpertsearch.com/novosti/item/96009-vykormyshi-nazarbaeva-nigmatulin-saparbaev-i-baybek-razdrazhayut- …

T A B L E No. 1

Relatives of Nurlan Nigmatulin

T A B L E No. 2

List of enter­pris­es and orga­ni­za­tions of Nurlan Nigmatulin’s relatives

LINKS ON SOCIAL MEDIA

Nurlanov Madi

 https://vk.com/id236979818 https://www.worldcubeassociation.org/persons/2018NURL01

Laura Sapa

https://vk.com/laura.sapa

Amina Nigmatulin

 https://vk.com/aminuwah, https://www.facebook.com/amina.nigmatulina.18 , https://uk.linkedin.com/in/amina-nigmatulina

Argynov Asan

https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100001036068460

Marhabat Belbaeva

 https://vk.com/id63723152, https://www.facebook.com/marhabat.belbaeva

Alexey Kobylyatsky

https://www.facebook.com/alexeykoby

Daria Kobylyatskaya

https://www.facebook.com/dasha.kobylyatskaya

Belbaeva Naile has a page in FB

Belbaeva Saltanat

 https://www.facebook.com/saltanatbelb , https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100001972178885 https://vk.com/salta1983

Belbaev Baurzhan

 https://www.facebook.com/baurzhan.belbayev.90, https://www.facebook.com/baurzhan.belbayev

Zhandos Belbaev

https://www.facebook.com/zhandos.belbayev

BELBAEVA SHOLPAN

https://www.facebook.com/sholpan.belbayeva

Magda Idrisova (there is a fam­i­ly photo)

https://vk.com/id108113181

Madina Idrisova

https://vk.com/idrissovaidrissova

insta­gram: id_madina  https://my.mail.ru/mail/i.madina-96/

Alina Idrisova

https://vk.com/idrissovaa

Louise Idrisova

https://vk.com/luizaidrissova

Kamal Idrisov

https://vk.com/id189368942