Beijing denies reports that former Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev is in China

Beijing has denied reports that former Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev is in China. About it stated at the press service of the PRC Foreign Ministry.

“This is absolutely false information. We noticed that the press secretary of the former president of Kazakhstan said that Nazarbayev is currently in the capital of the country, Nur-Sultan, ”the Chinese Foreign Ministry said.

Earlier, the press service of the former president said that he is in Nur-Sultan and calls on everyone to rally around the head of state, Kassym-Zhomart Tokayev, to overcome the challenges and ensure the country’s integrity.

The Sota edition, citing political scientist Arkady Dubnov, wrote that Nazarbayev may be in China. Dubnov also told the publication that one nephew of Nazarbayev, billionaire and patron of Kazakhstani religious radicals, Kairat Satybaldy, was arrested in Dubai, and the second, General and First Deputy Head of the NKB Samat Abish Satybaldy, was detained.

Nazarbayev himself and all his relatives, including the detainees, belong to the Shapyrashty clan of the Uysun Senior union, which owned huge funds from the gas processing enterprises. The historian and orientalist Andrei Zubov writes about this. The current head of Kazakhstan, Kassym-Zhomart Tokayev, also has family ties with the Senior Zhuz, although in the clan system he always played the role of a “poor relative,” which soon allowed him to seriously think about a presidential career supported by the funds and influence of wealthy relatives.

It also became known that at the Al Maktoum International Airport in Dubai landed E35L board of the Embraer Legacy 650 aircraft, which took off from the capital of Kazakhstan on the night of January 6. Flight data was hidden. The plane may belong to the National Guard of the Republic.

The non-profit group C4ADS has collaborated with OCCRP to publish investigation, according to which the unregistered property of the family of ex-President of Kazakhstan Nursultan Nazarbayev is located in Dubai. According to the authors of the investigation, the grandson of Nazarbayev, Nurali Aliyev, the former head of the National Security Committee Karim Massimov and the son-in-law of Nursultan Nazarbayev, Timur Kulibayev, have residences in Dubai.