1. Rakhat Mukhtaruly Aliyev was a Kazakh senior official and diplomat, who died in an Austrian prison awaiting trial on charges of murder.
41 Facts About Rakhat Aliyev
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Rakhat Aliyev's trial was planned to start in Vienna in first half of year 2015.
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Rakhat Aliyev was chief of Kazakhstan's tax police, deputy chief of the KNB state security service, ambassador to Austria, and first vice foreign minister.
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Until June 2007, Rakhat Aliyev was married to Dariga Nazarbayeva, the eldest daughter of Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev.
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Rakhat Aliyev was jailed at the Josefstadt prison pending trial, and was placed under watch as a suicide risk.
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Rakhat Aliyev, who portrayed himself as a dissident after falling out with Kazakhstan's leadership, said that he was not guilty and the charges against him were politically motivated.
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Rakhat Aliyev was born on December 10,1962, in Almaty.
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Rakhat Aliyev came from the kiyikshi branch of the jamanbay family of the qonyrat clan, Middle juz.
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On 7 October 1983, Rakhat Aliyev married Dariga Nazarbayeva, daughter of the First Secretary of the Central Committee Communist Party of the Kazakh SSR, Nursultan Nazarbayev at the time.
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In 1986, Rakhat Aliyev became a surgeon at the Alma-Ata Medical Institute.
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Kazakhstan's success in advancing its bid for the OSCE chairmanship came only after Rakhat Aliyev was removed from all posts.
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Rakhat Aliyev moved to Malta with his second wife Elnara Shorazova; the two allegedly began to dissolve and reorganize their money laundering network.
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The money originated in the late 1990s, when Rakhat Aliyev was head of the tax office in Kazakhstan.
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Rakhat Aliyev allegedly tortured the two bodyguards of Akezhan Kazhegeldin to get them to confess to a coup d'etat.
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Rakhat Aliyev was accused of killing the Kazakh opposition leader, Altynbek Sarsenbayev in February 2006 according to Kazakh prosecutors.
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In December 2013, prosecutors reportedly released findings that Rakhat Aliyev ordered the assassination.
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Rakhat Aliyev reportedly kidnapped two managers of Nurbank in 2007; their bodies were found in 2011.
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Rakhat Aliyev denied the allegations against him and said they are politically motivated.
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Rakhat Aliyev fled to Austria when he was being investigated for the murder of the two Nurbank managers.
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Rakhat Aliyev's crimes were kidnapping, treason and plotting a coup d'etat against his father-in-law Nursultan Nazarbayev.
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Rakhat Aliyev married Austrian citizen Elnara Shorazova and enjoyed free movement throughout Europe although being investigated on fraud charges in the Austria, Germany and Malta.
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Rakhat Aliyev allegedly wanted to obtain citizenship in Cyprus because it was becoming "too hot" in Malta because of all the investigations.
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Rakhat Aliyev was arrested in June 2014 after he allegedly turned himself into authorities to cooperate with the murder investigation of the two bankers.
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Rakhat Aliyev's lawyer confirmed the arrest and said it took place at 11pm on 5 June 2014 on his way to the airport.
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On 4 July 2014, Rakhat Aliyev had been moved to a secure prison cell because of repeated attacks and threats by other inmates.
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Rakhat Aliyev allegedly is forced to share a cell because of fear he might commit suicide.
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Rakhat Aliyev denounced the Justice for Novikova protesters as agents of the Kazakh secret services.
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Rakhat Aliyev said that all his trials and sentencing were politically motivated and told newspapers that he would be willing to appear in Austrian courts, but feared that he would be kidnapped.
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The Skype calls purportedly recorded Rakhat Aliyev directing the fabrication of a specific forged document to discredit former British prime minister Blair and former Austrian chancellor Gusenbauer.
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The move occurred days after Rakhat Aliyev became embroiled in a controversy over the disappearance of two former executives of the Kazakh bank Nurbank.
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Rakhat Aliyev joined the chorus of critics, saying the amendments threaten to torpedo Kazakhstan's OSCE chairmanship bid.
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On 7 August 2007 a Vienna court rejected a request from Kazakhstan to extradite Rakhat Aliyev and ruled against extraditing the son-in-law of Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev, who was wanted on charges of kidnapping.
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In 2013, Rakhat Aliyev published a book Godfather-in-law, in which he accused Nazarbayev of being responsible for the murders of the opposition leaders.
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On 13 June 2007, Rakhat Aliyev was divorced from his wife, Dariga.
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Rakhat Aliyev claimed that the divorce was carried out without his knowledge or consent.
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Rakhat Aliyev stated that he did not inherit his father's wealth because his father's wealth was stolen by Dariga and Alnur Mussayev spelled Alnur Musaev.
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Nurali Rakhat Aliyev was named in the Panama Papers as having vast amounts of wealth held in offshore companies through Alba International and the Baltimore Alliance which are registered in the British Virgin Islands.
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Rakhat Aliyev is married to Aida Berikovna who is the daughter of Berik Imashev.
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Rakhat Aliyev married his assistant, Elnara Shorazova, who held an Austrian passport, and assumed the masculine form of her surname, Shoraz, as his own name.
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On 24 February 2015, on the 40th Day after death of his father, Rakhat Aliyev was found dead in the solitary cell of his Vienna prison.
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Rakhat Aliyev argued that in adopting a republican form of government when it gained independence in 1991 as the Soviet Union collapsed, Kazakhstan defied its traditions.