In Kazakhstan, compensation for damage to the country’s economy due to various illegal actions is in full swing. This mission is entrusted to the Interdepartmental Commission on Counteracting the Illegal Concentration of Economic Resources.
Even though the commission was created a little over a month ago, there are already tangible results of its activities.
For example, as it was noted at the last meeting, the working group, literally recently, with the assistance of the Commission, managed to protest the court decision according to which Narodnyy Bank (owned, by the way, by Timur and Dinara Kulibaev, the daughter and son-in-law of the ex-president of Kazakhstan Nursultan Nazarbayev) for the non-repayment of a loan in the amount of $5.3 million received the property of the sanatorium “Kazakhstan” worth $24.7 million.
But the main success, perhaps, is the return of money stolen by Nursultan Nazarbayev’s relatives – nephew Kairat Satybaldy, his ex-wife Gulmira Satybaldy and Kairat Boranbaev, whose daughter Alima Boranbaeva was married to the late grandson of the ex-president Aisultan Rakhat, as well as the heads of the company “Operator ROP “, which initially belonged to Nazarbayev’s daughter.
“At the moment, the measures taken by the investigation bodies have reimbursed about $475 million, incl. by returning them from foreign jurisdictions. For example, in a case investigated by the Anti-Corruption Service, the defendants voluntarily returned over 170 million US dollars from Luxembourg,” the Commission’s working group noted at a meeting.
In addition, in cases of theft of property of Kazakhtelecom JSC, Center for Transport Service JSC, and others, $74.2 million was recovered. In the Operator-ROP case, theft of about $371 million was prevented. In the case against ex-heads and employees of the National Security Committee from Hong Kong and the UAE, nearly 3 million US dollars were returned. During the investigation of the case against Boranbaev, KazMunayGas JSC reimbursed about $23.2 million by the Financial Monitoring Agency,” the Commission noted.
