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For subscribers » Other » Kazakh top manager detained on corruption charges - paper | 11 September 2008

The Kazakh mass-selling tabloid Vremya reported on 9 September that the former head of the Kazakhtelecom and KazMunayGaz national companies, Serik Burkitbayev, had been arrested on corruption charges.

For subscribers » Other » Kazakh president’s former son-in-law gets another 20-year prison term | 27 March 2008

The Kazakh president’s former son-in-law Rakhat Aliyev and the former head of the National Security Committee, Alnur Musayev, were sentenced on 26 March by the military tribunal of the Akmola garrison in absentia to 20 years’ imprisonment each for an alleged coup d’etat attempt. The closed trial heard that the coup was allegedly expected to take place in May or June 2007, Shokan Shaykenov, a National Security Committee investigator, told a news conference in Astana on 27 March. He added that about 80 to 90 fighters had been trained abroad and funded by Mr Aliyev and Mr Musayev for this purpose.