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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The former Vice-Minister of Kazakhstan Rakhat Alyiev supplied his “own” people with fake Honduras passports

This is an interesting story I picked up. The former deputy chief of Kazakhstan's intelligence services tried to provide fake Honduras passports to his people.
The events concerning the conviction of the former Vice-Minister of Kazakhstan have been attracting attention of the public for the second year now.As it is known for the European citizens, in the middle of 2008 Rakhat Alyiev and number of persons were imprisoned for a long term by the court of Kazakhstan for the preparation of coup d’etat.Today R.Alyiev represents himself as an innocent victim and persecuted for political motives. According to the information on the Internet at present time R.Alyiev is in Vienna, where he had held the office of the Ambassador of this country to Austria before the sentence of Kazakhstani court.Indeed, R.Alyiev, who is called “Vienna addict” by Mass Media of Kazakhstan arouses a suspicious estimation. First of all, it is connected with the fact that he made a breath-taking career in the sphere of civil service, holding the honorary offices in the fiscal organs, special services and also in diplomacy.By Mass Media of Kazakhstan, R.Alyiev always played the role of a mighty individual. Being in the offices under the Government it was in his power to issue the public documents to his “own” people in a short term period.In this connection, on the website “centrasia.ru” the articles of independent journalists are very interesting: “Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Kazakhstan– in Germany a citizen of Honduras, the general director of the TV channel KTK Sergei Kleschenkov was taken into custody” of 28.05.2002, “Honduras- to be continued”, of June 3, 2002, “NG” – No kidding. The head of Kazakhstani TV channel turned out to be a spy… of Honduras” of 17.06.2002 and on the website “nomad.su” “To be continued … Once – not Honduras or what happened to Kleschenkov” of 30.05.2002.Judging these publications it is evident, that Sergei Kleschenkov, the director of the TVchannel “KTK”, belonging to Rakhat Alyiev moved across the Europe with the fake passport …. of Honduras!It seems to be an ordinary case! All the more, a lot of people try to get to the Europe by all means! But Mr. S.Kleschenkov was initially detained by German police in the city of Passau on suspicion of complicity in the “Mercedes”car theft of 44000 Euro in February of 2002. German policemen were greatly surprised when Mr. showed the passport of Honduras N A092944, which earlier was stolen with other forms of passports in June-September 2001 from Passport Agency of the city of San Pedro Sulla (Honduras). Having understood, in which situation he got to, S.Kleschenkov also showed Kazakhstani diplomatic service passport N S0007279, issued … by Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Kazakhstan.During the interrogation S.Kleschenkov didn’t give clear answer about his citizenship and announced the policemen that he was a citizen of Honduras.To sort out the circumstances of the incident, the Embassy of the Federative Republic of Germany to Kazakhstan requested Ministry for Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Kazakhstan on the citizenship of S.Kleschenkov. The representatives of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Kazakhstan informed German colleagues that Kleschenkov, former director of the TV channel “KTK”, in May 2001 received the passport of Kazakhstan, series of which is S0007279 for business trips. However, in April 2002 Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Kazakhstan in its reply also stated, that Kleschenkov wasn’t granted citizenship of the Republic of Kazakhstan.The case is in the deadlock!?According to independent journalists S.Kleschenkov got Kazakhstani passport by the letter to the Ministry for Foreign Affairs of his almighty patron – Rakhat Alyiev, who held the office of one of the special service directors of Kazakhstan.It was also found out that, Honduras passport had been issued to Kleschenkov by Farris Aimadii, the Ambassador of Honduras to Jordan, … brother-in-law of Rakhat Alyiev! Further, this Ambassador was withdrawn to his motherland and arrested on suspicion of mass spreading of fake passports of his own country.Despite of all these weird things, a mysterious story about German law enforcing bodies detention ended with the fact, that S.Kleschenkov with the help of Rakhat Alyiev was released in security for US $13000 and left for his motherland.Everything would be OK, but only after 3 years, Kleschenkov died in Kazakhstan under suspicious circumstances on 5 January 2006….

One of Kazakhstan's Most Interesting Figures - Fugutive Rakhat Aliyev

One of Kazakhstan's most interesting figures is the fugitive Rakhat Aliyev. He is the former son-in-law of President Nazarbayev, but he is currently wanted on official corruption charges stemming from his role as deputy head of the intelligence services. In this blog, I will highlight some of his unique shennanigans. Here is an old article for your review about how this guy would take credit for things he did not do.

Rakhat Aliyev - Crime Fighter
General Rakhat Aliyev, keen to follow in his father-in-law Nursultan Nazarbayev's footsteps to the Kazakstan presidency, seems to know few limits when it comes to self-promotion
Sergei Duvanov from Almaty (RCA No. 15, 11-Aug-00)
Television viewers were recently treated to the strange spectacle of Kazak "Rambos" arriving back in Almaty with an AN-12 transport plane allegedly seized during a raid on the Congo.
The plane had been sold to the Congo - apparently in breach of Kazak law - by the Infrakos company. According to a statement from the National Security Committee, NSC, around a dozen Kazak commandos were dispatched to the Congo to seize the plane and fly it back to Almaty.
Television cameras were waiting at the airport, where the commandos - for some reason wearing black masks - posed for journalists. Presiding over the whole performance was Rakhat Aliyev, number two at the NSC and son-in-law of the president, who praised the success of the operation and promised that the security council would not allow any more state property to be sold off for a song.
This was only the latest in a series of media episodes designed to enhance the image of the NSC. In each case Aliyev and his cohorts are seen fighting evil, in the form of drug dealers, or corrupt businessmen engaged in ripping-off the country.
The NSC is presented as the only body capable of fighting corruption, which - it is implied - extends to the police, custom officials and tax inspectors. Aliev's image-makers are clearly hoping a more important subtext will take root in viewers' minds - if General Aliyev can work such wonders in his own department, then imagine what he could achieve if he were running the country? Kazak pundits are convinced Aliev is preparing the ground ahead of an attempt on higher office.
The idea of a dozen camouflaged Kazak commandos turning up in the Congo, seizing a vast aeroplane, flying through the airspace of several countries, touching down to refuel at least once, before reaching Almaty, beggars belief.
But even if it did all happen as the NSC claims, questions arise about the legality of such an action. None of the Kazak mass media have paused to ask whether the special services should be behaving like vigilantes. Moreover, no one has wondered if the aeroplane in question was worth such enormous effort.
Aliev's priority seems to be promoting himself as a strongman, prepared to bend the rules to reclaim stolen Kazak property. But the consequences of this adventure could be far-reaching.
A country which despatches special forces and uses violence to resolve international property disputes could be deemed a terrorist state. So while the action may have been brave and daring, it was neither sober nor well thought out.
Which has led some to reach quite a different conclusion than the one Aliev intended. By showing off his youth, inexperience and legal ignorance, Aliyev has raised a question mark over whether he is fit to be the next chief of a department like the NSC. Moreover, the episode could have dented any presidential ambitions he may have had.
But there is yet another version of events, which pins the misjudgement not on Aliyev, but on his spin doctors and their ill-judged scam to boost their boss's tough-guy image. According to this interpretation prior agreement was reached with the new owners of the AN-12 ahead of the mission.
The rest of the drama depended on Aliyev's acting skills and his subordinates' ability to keep a straight face while they reeled off their improbable story.
This version would explain why the NSC is insisting that no violence was used to reclaim the plane; why there have been no complaints from the Congolese; and why Kazakstan has not been accused of state terrorism.
The image of a just, honest and courageous leader was conceived last year, when the Aliyev-controlled Novoye Pokolenie (New Generation) newspaper compared him to a an character from a well-known soap opera, who bravely takes on the Italian Mafia.
And Aliyev's publicity machine is not about to rest on its laurels. The filming of Crossroads, a popular Kazak soap opera, is being hurried along to allow filming to begin on a new drama series about the NSC. While the money for the series does not come directly from the council itself, it is thought the time-honoured Kazak practice of "voluntary" (read: enforced) commercial sponsorship has been used to pay for it.
Of course, while few doubt that the president's son-in-law is nursing serious presidential ambitions, the more important question is what the president himself wants. If Nazarbaev decides to back Aliev, his public relations campaign will undoubtedly grow apace. If Nazarbaev decides, however, on a different successor, Aliyev will no doubt abandon his spin-doctors and fall into line.

Aliyev Starts Up a Blog In English

I find it interesting that Mr Aliyev has started up his own blog. I am sure this is in an effort to communicate with the world outside of Austria. In his latest post, Mr Aliyev talks (in English) about a gentleman by the name of Alexander Mirtchev. He is a Bulgarian, I believe. The tension that exists between the two stems from a rumor that Mr Mirtchev had a tumultuous affair with Mr Aliyev's former wife Dariga Nazarbayev, who is also President Nazarbayev's daughter. You can read a bit of Aliyev's accusations about Mirtchev at his professionally-designed (something I cannot afford for mine) new blog.

Kazakhstan: A Monarchy?

This is a very unusual concept where Mr Rakhat Aliyev talks about Kazakhstan becoming a constitutional monarchy. As someone who was born in Kazakhstan, I do not think this is the best idea. I would much prefer that my nation move to become a full Western style democracy. Some progress is being made in this vain and I hope it continues. The only type of royalty that I want to see in my country is that of the beauty pagent sort.

http://roberts-report.blogspot.com/2006/09/kazakh-sultanat-should-kazakhstan.html

Aliyev/Aliev in the Washington Times

Here is a really interesting article in the Washington Times about our Rakhat Aliyev who remains a fugitive from justice and is seeking asylum in Austria. In a Dec. 3 story in The Washington Times, Mr. Aliyev claimed he is being punished for revealing plans to challenge Mr. Nazarbayev in 2012 elections. This version seems to debunk that concept. http://washingtontimes.com/news/2009/feb/06/suspect-finds-refuge-in-austria/

More on the Mirtchev/Dariga Affair

By the way, I got a few dirty comments from some of you who elaborated on the enigmatic Alexander Mirtchev having the sex with Aliyev's wife Dariga Nazarbayeva. Please do not take offense to me deleting the comments, but I thought some of them might be too explicit and violate Blogger's TOS. So please, keep sending me tips (and pictures) on the affair between Alexander Mirtchev and Dariga Nazarbayeva. In the photo above, you can see the two of them in a innocent panel discussion. I think this is a juicy story that demonstrates why Ailyev is so angry with Mirtchev.

Austria hears witnesses in Kazakh kidnapping case: NGO

It is amazing to me that every corrupt public official becomes a democrat, when they leave a third world nation. In this case, I think the same has falsely been applied to Rakhat Aliyev.

This is a good story about the case against Mr. Aliyev

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.