Kairat Satybaldy (Satybaldyuly), nephew of former Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev, has returned illegally acquired assets worth $1.6 billion to the state since 2022, the press service of the Anti-Corruption Agency reported.
“Since 2022 until now, property assets and cash worth over 732.8 billion tenge or $1.6 billion illegally acquired by K. Satybaldyuly and persons related to him have been returned to the state,” the report said.
Of these, $661.5 million were found abroad and were returned to Kazakhstan as soon as possible, including from such countries as Austria, Liechtenstein, UAE and Turkey.
According to the press service, 28.8% of shares of Kazakhtelecom JSC for 93.8 billion KZT (almost $196 million); CTS JSC (Transport Service Center) for 30.2 billion KZT ($63.1 million); shares in 4 companies for 10.3 billion KZT ($21.5 million); property assets in Kazakhstan for 158.5 billion KZT ($331.1 million) were returned to the state; exclusive jewelry worth 105.39 bln KZT ($230 mln); money on Kazakhstani accounts – 36.8 bln KZT ($76.9 mln); money from Austria – 36.8 bln KZT ($82.1 mln); money from Liechtenstein – 116.7 billion tenge ($260.5 million); money from UAE – 6.3 billion tenge ($14 million); money from Turkey – 2.2 billion tenge ($4.92 million); sale of securities – 135.8 billion tenge ($300 million).
In the state property transferred 115 Kazakh objects worth more than 158 billion tenge ($330 million), including 73 real estate (13 houses, 10 buildings, 13 land plots, 4 apartments, 3 structures, 2 madrasah buildings with an annex, 2 parking lots, 25 premises, 1 construction in progress), 37 items of movable property (29 cars, 5 special equipment, 3 quad bikes) and other property.
It is noted that some of the property was registered to his close relatives, affiliated persons and controlled companies. The total area of administrative buildings transferred to the state in the cities of Astana and Almaty exceeds 180 thousand square meters. m.
“Previously, these assets were leased and annually brought the owner a multi-billion dollar income, the recipient of which is now the state”, – said in Anticor.
For example, one of the luxury objects – the former residence of Satybaldyuly in the village of Barap, Akmola region, with a total area of 1.5 thousand square meters with a land plot of 135 hectares – was transferred to the Department of Education of Astana.
The agency added that during the investigation Satybaldyuly fully admitted his guilt, reimbursed the damage in full, as well as contributed to the investigation of criminal offenses and disclosure of property obtained by criminal means.
The Anticorruption Service investigated criminal cases against Satybaldyuly on the facts of embezzlement of funds of Kazakhtelecom JSC, Transport Service Center JSC on a large scale, legalization (laundering) of money and other property obtained by criminal means, as well as evasion of customs duties by the company controlled by him.
The official rate for August 12 – 477.04 tenge/$1.
