Kazakhstan authorities returned 230 billion tenge ($ 481 million) to the treasury when investigating criminal cases related to the family of ex-president of the country Nursultan Nazarbayev, writes Informburo.kz with reference to the interdepartmental commission on countering the illegal concentration of economic resources.
According to data, the cases that are discussed were investigated in relation to Nazarbayev’s closest relatives. The commission believes that the ex-see of the former president Kairat Boronbaev, the nephew Kairat Satybaldy, together with his wife Gulmira Satybaldy, as well as the head of the “operator of the ROP” associated with Alia Nazarbayeva, laundered money, including abroad. In the case of “Operator ROP”, it was possible to prevent theft of about 180 billion tenge. In cases of theft of Kazakhtelecom, the Center for the Transport Service and several other large organizations, 36 billion tenge were reimbursed. Another $ 170 million was voluntarily returned from Luxembourg. In addition, in the case of Boranbaev, Kazmunaygaz managed to compensate 11.3 billion tenge. In the case of unnamed former officials of the National Security Committee from Hong Kong and the UAE, they returned $ 3 million