New One: Aliyev Allegedly Keeps His Father Forcebly in Austria

Interfax-Kazakhstan reported that Mukhtar Aliyev, claims his son, Rakhat Aliyev, has been kept him in Vienna since autumn last year.

A copy of his father's handwritten appeal to Kazakh Ambassador [to Austria] Yerzhan Kazykhanov was circulated today by the Kazakh state agencies for the country's media for further publication.

Relevant materials were sent to the Interfax-Kazakhstan news agency as well.
Mukhtar Aliyev says that since October last year, he cannot return to his homeland from Austria, where he went a heart surgery a year ago. His son has allegedly taken away his documents, money, mobile phone and other personal belongings.
Interfax-Kazakhstan cannot confirm the authenticity of the statement by Mukhtar Aliyev.

Security services of Kazakhstan reopened criminal case on forged passports of Honduras

Here is an interesting story from Axis Globe:


The authorities of Kazakhstan have been continuing their struggle against the West with an aim of achieving extradition to Kazakhstan of the fugitive National Security Committee (KNB) General Rakhat Aliyev, former son-in-law of the Kazakhstan’s President, and


Rakhat Aliyev currently the most known searched Kazakh criminal, currently living in Vienna, Russian online news agency APN reports.
Currently the security services of Kazakhstan have actively joined investigation of the case of the late journalist, film director and producer, chairman of the board of directors of local TV channel KTK, Sergei Kleshchenkov. He died at the age of 36, on January 6, 2006, under unclear circumstances. He was related to the case of stolen passport forms of Honduras passports, a part of which appeared at the disposal of the Al-Qaeda terrorist organization. The investigation has been resumed in the framework of activities on revealing of possible contacts of Rakhat Aliyev with the Islamist terrorists.
APN pays special attention to AIA’s recent article’ Honduras Passports Case: Al-Qaeda, Kazakh Intelligence Services and a Dead Journalist’.
There was an opinion that the KTK TV channel (the same as a number of other mass media in Kazakhstan) has been controlled by Rakhat Aliyev. This was still in early 2000 reported by local mass media. Kleshchenkov publicly called it lies aimed at discreditation of the TV channel. However, a few years later in an interview to Kazakhstan publication ‘Karavan’, Aliyev admitted that he really owned shares of the major mass media outlets, including KTK TV channel. This means that there has been connection between the two men and it had been rather close linkage, APN concludes.
Kleshchenkov appeared mixed-up in a rather unpleasant story; he was detained on February 28, 2002, on a Vienna-Brussels train. He produced a Honduras foreign passport No A092944. According to secret services, in 2001, this passport was stolen together with other 1,562 forms of Honduras passports from a passport bureau in San Pedro Sula. At the moment of detention Kleshchenkov already was not a citizen of Kazakhstan, though he possessed a service passport of this state, issued in May, 2001. According to an official request by Rakhat Aliyev to the Consular Department of the Kazakhstan Foreign Ministry, it was Aliyev who asked to issue this passport to Kleshchenkov.
Late in May 2002, in the Kazakhstan publication Vremya, a report appeared with the reference to online site www.hondurasti.com, devoted to the theft of forms of Honduras foreign passports. It was said in the report that an illegal network of sale of similar documents had been revealed. It was marked that „this case has been connected with the citizen of Kazakhstan, Sergei Kleshchenkov».
Kleshchenkov brought an action in the Almaty court then, charging Vremya with slander and demanding large compensation in terms of money. According to him, Vremya had distributed „lies that he allegedly was a member of an international criminal grouping and has connection with distribution of forged passports and was possibly connected with theft of the documents”. Though in December 2002, the court rejected Kleshchenkov’s request, thus it actually recognized that similar allegations are at least not unfounded.
Sergei Kleshchenkov paid high for his ties with Rakhat Aliyev, and in all likelihood was his regular victim, APN concludes.



http://www.axisglobe.com/article.asp?article=1812

Mirtchev on Riz Khan

I found it interesting that the enigmatic Alexander Mirtchev appeared on the Riz Khan show.

Is Mirtchev Advising the Obama Administration through the Bilderbergers and Trilateral Commission?

Interestingly enough, we hear through high placed sources that the enigmatic Alexander Mirtchev, who is an American, has ties to the Trilateral Commission at the Council of Foreign Relations and the Bilderbergers, through an elaborate network.

On top of this, some political operatives contend that many top officials in Obama's administration are involved in a clandestine Bilderberg cabal bent on creating a one-world government that supersedes the United States.

And now, some in the Obama administration who have taken part in Bilderberg conferences in the past are gaining attention for their alleged involvement in a secret bid for worldwide planning.

Mirtchev is rumored to have given a well-received presentation to leaders of the groups, who generally promote Keynesian economics and interventionism. Mirtchev is known as an ardent capitalist, who has been touting a laissez faire plan to G-20 leaders. Some of these viewpoints could be permeating the Obama Administration through Mirtchev's high-placed networks.

The Bilderbergers's group, which takes its name from the Dutch hotel where it held its first meeting in 1954, exists solely to bring together between 100 and 150 titans of politics, finance, military, industry, academia and media from North America and Western Europe once a year to discuss world affairs. It doesn’t issue policy statements or resolutions, nor does it hold any events other than an annual meeting.

Let us know if you hear anything more on this front.




http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0309/20010.html

The Austrian-Kazakh "Spy" Scandal as Provoked by Aliyev

The Austrian special services arrested and interrogated policemen who are suspected in an alleged illegal attempt to find out the address of the fugitive ex-ambassador of Kazakhstan Rakhat Aliyev. This action has inflicted serious harm to relations between Vienna and Astana. According to Kazakhstan and to some independent experts, the scandal is another act organized by Aliyev, the former deputy head of the Kazakhstan secret police NSC, who once had taken a training course in FBI.

Information about two policemen arrested on the 11th of February in Vienna suspected in “obtaining secret information from computers of the Ministry of Internal Affairs” for “Kazakhstan clients” that was published in mass-media created a furor. Notwithstanding that Vienna has long been a center of activity of various special services, notably Russian services that have been monitoring activity of the Caucasian Diaspora, the information on the alleged bribery of Austrian legal authorities was rather extraordinary. According to the information confirmed by official sources in Vienna two policemen were discharged from office in relation with being suspected in spying, notably in work for representatives of Kazakhstan government in order to obtain secret information from the EKIS – police computer data base. It is referred to obtaining data concerning the former ambassador of Kazakhstan in Vienna, Rakhat Aliyev. Let’s remind you that over a year and a half ago the Vienna court took a decision not to extradite Rakhat Aliyev, the former ambassador of Kazakhstan in Austria, the former deputy head of the NSC and the former son in law of president N. Nazarbayev to Kazakhstan. Aliyev who escaped to Austria in the middle of 2007 was accused by the Kazakh court of several grave crimes, such as complicacy of kidnappings, tortures and murders and attempts of a coup. Anyhow, the authorities of Austria having relied upon some testimonies of Aliyev’s companion, left him in the country, having declared that the trial in Astana wouldn’t be “fair”. Over a year ago the authorities of Kazakhstan put Rakhat Aliyev on the international wanted list, after the court had accounted him guilty in the aforementioned crimes. The authorities of Vienna didn’t react again. According to the words of the Austrian General Prosecution official Gerhard Jarosch the policemen can be sentenced to three years in prison for spying, while an attempt to obtain a state secret is penalized by 10 years on imprisonment. Mass-media declared that the policemen under suspicion were looking for the Rakhat Aliyev’s address, and one of the Austrian secret services officers had already been convicted for delivering data concerning the fugitive ambassador to Astana. With regard to the attempt of spying the Austrian authorities started an in-house investigation. Herewith, in a while one of the arrested policemen was released. Kazakhstan denies any complicacy to the case of “hiring” policemen in order to find out Aliyev’s address. As the NSC and other governmental sources stress, all hints that the search for this address is connected with some plans of killing the convicted ex-ambassador and former deputy head of the Kazakhstan special services are excruciating. Astana realizes all too well that any attempts of inflicting physical damage to Aliyev would deal a fatal blow to relations between Kazakhstan and Western countries and would shoot down plans on Kazakhstan becoming the OSCE leader in the year 2010. “It would have been a suicide. And a senseless suicide, for Vienna have started reconsidering its decision to give refuge to Rakhat Aliyev, regarding testimonies of family members of Aliyev’s victims. Armangul Kapasheva, the “Tagdyr” fund head, and her companions, fed the Austrian powers with information, and that’s just the beginning. A high-ranking AIA source from Kazakhstan told that Austria should still expect for documents and testimonies that would be provided by Adonis Derbas, a citizen of Canada, whose forfeited testimonies were used to deny Aliyev’s extradition to Kazakhstan. Astana declares that it is a provocative act of the kind that Aliyev had organized last September. The former NSC deputy Alnur Mussayev, one of the Aliyev’s accomplices who had also been convicted for crimes and also was hiding in Vienna, filed a complaint to Austrian police that he and his companion were attacked. He was allegedly attacked by four armed “Kazakh agents” who tried to put him into the car, but he managed to “fend them off”. Official Vienna didn’t confirm this fact, while according to Gerhard Jarosch, the General Office of Public Prosecutor representative, the legal enforcement authorities got to know the only fact that Mussayev turned to police. Jarosch also disproved information published by some news agencies that life of Rakhat Aliyev was attempted. A representative of the Austrian Office of Public Prosecutor told to mass-media: “As far as I know, Aliyev doesn’t appear in this case”. According to some experts, one of the indirect proofs that it is not a provocative act is the fact that the “spy” case appeared on the background of Armangul Kapasheva’s successful visit to Vienna that was widely publicized and also on the background of a solemn ceremony in the Austrian capital devoted to Kazakhstan entering the OSCE “triad”. “Spy subject” outmatched both events and distracted Austrian public from the fact that the convicted fugitive ex-ambassador is staying in their country. Rakhat Aliyev, an experienced NSC officer and a FBI trainee, clearly understood advantages of the scandal with "bribery of Austrian policemen". There is yet another version published by "Deutche Welle", that the policemen could have really monitored information for the Kazakhs, but not the Aliyev’s address. They could have tried to know whether there was data related to the Alnur Mussayev’s “kidnapping” in the police EKIS computer. According to this source, who is an anonymous employee of the Austrian secret services, the attempt to know whether the Austrian authorities had any information concerning real participants of the kidnapping scene, undertaken by the Kazakhs, proves that Astana is sincere in its declaration. Otherwise the Kazakhs have no reason to find it out. Herewith if it was not published, it would cast light on Rakhat Aliyev’s “patrons”. Besides, some well-known Austrian politicians who couldn’t understand why Kazakhstan was denied of extraditing a convicted criminal also were searching for those authorities interested to keep the fugitive ex-ambassador in Vienna by all means. The source of the "Deutche Welle" magazine told that telephones of these politicians had been bugged by Austrian special services. Therefore the “spy scandal” between Vienna and Astana raises a lot of questions. How would it end is still unknown, but it’s clear that it plays into hands of the only man - Rakhat Aliyev, whose aim is to disavowal the Kazakhstan authorities in any sphere as much as possible

Hearing The Awful Tales of Aliyevs Crimes

I think this is an interesting story where one can learn of the awful crimes committed.

An Austrian court began hearing witnesses in a kidnapping case involving Rakhat Aliyev, the former son-in-law of Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev, a group representing the victims said.
"It's a great progress, we hope this procedure will lead to a trial in Austria or more likely to an extradition to serve the sentence in Kazakhstan," a spokesman for the NGO Tagdyr Foundation.
A court in Almaty sentenced Aliyev in absentia in January 2008 to 20 years in jail for kidnapping three senior Kazakh bank officials and murdering two of them, Joldas Timraliyev and Aibar Khasenov.
Aliyev, the former Kazakh ambassador to Austria, always maintained his innocence and Vienna refused to extradite him in August 2007 on the grounds that he would not be given a fair trial at home.
Tuesday however, the Vienna prosecutor's office decided to hear Timraliyev's wife Armangul Kapasheva, as well as Abilmazhen Gilimov, who has accused Aliyev of kidnapping, and Adonis Derbas, a Canadian national and former associate of Aliyev's, the Tagdyr Foundation said.
The prosecution refused to confirm or deny any of this information to AFP, saying it did not wish to comment on the case at this stage.
Aliyev was also handed a 20-year jail sentence in absentia last March for organising a coup in Kazakhstan.
But the former deputy foreign minister and ambassador, who was often in conflict with his father-in-law, claimed he was the victim of a political witch-hunt designed to crush his chances of running in the 2012 presidential elections.
Aliyev was divorced from Nazarbayev's daughter in 2007.

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