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
