1. Serik Nyghmetuly Akhmetov was a Prime Minister of Kazakhstan from 2012 to 2014.
26 Facts About Serik Akhmetov
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Serik Akhmetov served as the Minister of Defense from April to October 2014.
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Serik Akhmetov has served as Chairman of the Board of the Atameken National Union of Entrepreneurs and Employers of Kazakhstan since 2005.
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From March 2009, Serik Akhmetov served as Deputy Prime Minister before becoming the akim of Karaganda Region in November 2009.
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In November 2014, Serik Akhmetov was arrested after being accused of committing a crime while serving as an akim of Karaganda Region to which he was convicted in December 2015.
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Serik Akhmetov began his career in 1975 as a turner apprentice, then worked as a turner at the Karmetkombinat.
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In 1978, Serik Akhmetov returned to the Karmetkombinat as a turner where he was elected as a Secretary of the Komsomol Committee of the Plant in 1983.
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From 1989, Serik Akhmetov was the organizer of the Karaganda Regional Party Committee.
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In 1995, Serik Akhmetov became the general director of the Ken Dala Agro-Industrial Exchange, becoming president of the reorganized exchange in 1996.
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From 1998 to 2001, Serik Akhmetov served as a state inspector of the Organizational and Control Department of the Administration of the President of Kazakhstan.
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From 2005, Serik Akhmetov served as an executive director, then chairman of the board of the Atameken National Union of Entrepreneurs and Employers of Kazakhstan.
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Serik Akhmetov met with Igor Levitin, the Russian Transport Minister on 25 October 2006.
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Serik Akhmetov proposed building a transport corridor using preexisting roads from southern Kazakhstan through Kazan and Orenburg to St Petersburg.
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On 4 March 2009, Serik Akhmetov was appointed as the Deputy Prime Minister of Kazakhstan.
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On 19 November 2009, by the Decree of the President, Serik Akhmetov was appointed as the akim of the Karaganda Region.
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Serik Akhmetov was then the First Deputy Prime Minister from 20 January 2012.
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On 24 September 2012, Serik Akhmetov appointed as the Prime Minister of Kazakhstan.
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Serik Akhmetov outlined five areas for the implementation of social and economic policy aimed at achieving the planned growth parameters.
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In May 2013, Serik Akhmetov's government was instructed by President Nursultan Nazarbayev to implement a new pension reform.
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On 2 April 2014, Serik Akhmetov resigned from office as the PM.
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Serik Akhmetov continued to serve as the Minister of Defense in Massimov's cabinet from 3 April to 22 October 2014.
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On 19 November 2014, the court of Kazybek Bi district of Karaganda, Serik Akhmetov was accused of committing a crime under Article 176 of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Kazakhstan.
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Serik Akhmetov was convicted of corruption and given a ten-year prison sentence on 11 December 2015.
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In particular, he said that Serik Akhmetov admitted his guilt in the fact that, being the akim of the Karaganda Region and the PM of Kazakhstan, he did not watch the individuals who committed the theft of budget funds in the Karaganda Region.
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Serik Akhmetov asked the appellate panel of the regional court to acquit him.
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Serik Akhmetov was released from prison after two years with restrictions on 21 September 2017.