NUR-SULTAN (Reuters) – Samat Abish, the nephew of former Kazakh president Nursultan Nazarbayev, was sacked as second-in-command on the National Security committee on Monday, the president’s workplace mentioned, the newest Nazarbayev relative to be pushed out of workplace.
Timur Kulibayev, Nazarbayev’s billionaire son-in-law, additionally resigned on Monday as chairman of the Central Asian nation’s essential enterprise foyer group.
Nazarbayev, 81, who was thought of probably the most highly effective politician within the oil-rich nation even after stepping down in 2019, has not appeared in public because the starting of mass protests early this month which developed into the bloodiest unrest in Kazakhstan’s post-Soviet historical past.
President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, who as soon as renamed Kazakhstan’s capital metropolis after Nazarbayev, took over the latter’s position as chairman of the security council in the course of the unrest, placing an finish to their de facto ruling tandem.
He additionally appointed a brand new No.2 on the National Security Committee on the time, however didn’t instantly sack Abish.
Last week, Tokayev mentioned those that had made fortunes throughout Nazarbayev’s three-decade rule should now share them with the general public. Kazakhstan’s sovereign fund on Saturday eliminated two of Nazarbayev’s sons-in-law from senior positions at state oil and gasoline pipeline corporations.
Kulibayev, who collectively along with his spouse owns Kazakhstan’s largest financial institution, Halyk, didn’t clarify why he was leaving his job at Atameken, an influential enterprise foyer group.
At least 225 individuals had been killed on this month’s unrest, which engulfed half of the nation and compelled Tokayev to show to a Russia-led navy bloc for assist.
The authorities have detained Karim Masimov, the previous head of the National Security Committee, and two of his deputies, on prices of treason and mentioned the bout of violence was an tried coup d’etat.
(Reporting by Olzhas Auyezov; Editing by Gareth Jones)
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