Nursultan Nazarbayev

Kazakhstan
Kazakh financial intelligence ups pace of asset recovery investigations

A year after the January 2022 protests, Kazakhstan's economic and financial intelligence services are under pressure to either conclude or communicate the preliminary findings of their investigations on ill-gotten assets.

The Intelligence Gazette
Sudani rallies his troops, counter-espionage in Tbilisi, the Intelligence College in Europe, investigation into Kazakh services

Appointments, reforms and the issues at stake: every Monday, Intelligence Online serves up snippets big and small from the global intelligence community. This week, we bring news from Baghdad, Tbilisi, Paris and Astana.

IraqMohammed Shia al-Sudani rallies his troops after sackings.

GeorgiaIntelligence service hopes to boost counter-espionage.

FranceNews from the Intelligence College in Europe.

KazakhstanFormer KNB leaders targeted in parliament.

United Kingdom
SecureValue rebuilt from former G3 team

Two investigators previously with G3 and Kinnevik, the Swedish fund that owned the corporate intelligence firm, have launched their own firm, SecureValue, working with Ken MacDonald, the veteran lawyer of human rights cases and other lengthy investigations.

Kazakhstan, United Kingdom, United States
Kazakhstan's opposition working to raise awareness in London and Washington

Be it in the UK or the US, members of political opposition groups are moving forward with asset recovery and lobbying after Kazakhstan's presidential elections put these things on hold.

France, Kazakhstan
French defence industry honchos hobnob with Kazakhstan's President Tokayev in Paris

French business leaders schmoozed with visiting Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev and part-public industry chiefs at a dinner at the fancy Hotel d'Evreux on Paris's exclusive Place Vendome last week.

Kazakhstan, United States
Lobbyists and investigators push for US sanctions against Kazakh ex-president Nazarbayev's circle

After the US midterms and the presidential elections in Kazakhstan, lobbyist Joseph Szlavik is stepping up efforts to have sanctions imposed on the ex-president's brother Bolat Nazarbayev.

Central Asia, Russia
Despite change at the top, sparring continues at CSTO

Kazakhstan's Imangali Tasmagambetov, the next head of the Collective Security Treaty Organization, Central Asia's answer to NATO, will struggle to improve the body's standing with some member states.

Kazakhstan, United States
US private investigators home in on ex-president Nazarbayev's brother

A group of US lawyers and consultants are aiming to have OFAC sanctions placed on the former president's younger brother Bolat Nazarbayev, who is already under close watch from the Russian and Kazakh intelligence services.

Kazakhstan, United States
Kazakh opposition conducts Washington influence campaigns before elections

Ahead of Kazakhstan's early presidential election on 20 November, the country's exiled opposition is trying to trigger an investigation and sanctions against the government and several oligarchs through their contacts in Washington, including lobbyist Alex Beckles.

Kazakhstan
Nazarbayev's former allies fear investigations as elections loom

With the snap presidential election only a few weeks away, investigations into security officials and leading Kazakh business figures are being wrapped up one by one. Fearing they could be next, members of the current administration are keeping a low profile.

Kazakhstan, United Kingdom, United States
Kazakhstan and its Stati nemeses engage in tit-for-tat informational warfare

With Astana's long-drawn-out legal battle with Moldavian businessmen Anatol Stati and Gabriel Stati entering a new chapter, PR companies on both sides are ramping up efforts to discredit each other.

Kazakhstan, United Kingdom, United States
Kazakh asset recovery on hold until elections over

Behind the scenes, Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev's administration is still talking to US and British law firms about plans to recover assets connected to people in ex-president Nursultan Nazarbayev's circles. Their progress is hinged on the outcome of the upcoming political events.

Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, United Kingdom
Central Asian intelligence services take a first step towards their British counterparts

Although they are being careful to maintain their relations with their Russian counterparts, the Kazakh and Kyrgyz intelligence services are widening their contact network.

Kazakhstan, United States
Tokayev's team screens US lawyers to boost asset hunt

The Kazakh government is examining the credentials of US law firms willing to help it track down assets linked to the former regime.

Kazakhstan, United Kingdom
London-based holding company linked to former Kazakh government appoints international board members

Against the backdrop of the hunt for assets linked to former president Nursultan Nazarbayev, the British Kazakh asset manager Jusan Technologies is restructuring, with new British, American and Austrian directors replacing its old Kazakh board members.

Kazakhstan, Russia, Turkey
Arms export ban leaves KazEngineering caught in the middle

The Kazakh government's decision to suspend its military exports, announced with no official explanation, has cast a shadow over the activities of the state-owned defence conglomerate Kazakhstan Engineering.