Featured

Former Top Kazakh Official Under Investigation

hrapunov vASTANA -- Kazakh financial police have launched a criminal investigation against a former top official who is currently living in Switzerland, RFE/RL's Kazakh Service reports.

 

Zhandos Omiraliev, spokesman for the Kazakh Prosecutor-General's Office, told RFE/RL that police are investigating the activities of Viktor Khrapunov, who was mayor of Almaty from 1997-2004.

 

Omiraliev said he could not provide any details into the case. Financial police officials were not available to comment.

 

After leaving the Almaty mayoral post, Khrapunov worked as governor of his native East Kazkahstan Oblast before serving briefly as Kazakhstan's emergency situations minister.

 

He was sacked from that post in 2007 in the wake of a scandal surrounding land parcels allegedly distributed illegally by Khrapunov when he was mayor of Almaty.

 

In 2008, Khrapunov and several of his family members immigrated to Switzerland.

 

www.rferl.org

Experts of the Committee against Torture Commend Kazakhstan for Enhanced Legislation

Experts of the Committee against Torture Commend Kazakhstan for Enhanced Legislation

More details
Kazakh official: Not the time to resolve differences through war

Kazakh official: Not the time to resolve differences through war

More details
Oil majors sued by Kazakh government over billions in revenue

Oil majors sued by Kazakh government over billions in revenue

More details