Rachat Aliyev

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Rachat Aliyev (April 2007)

Rachat Muchtaruly Älijew ( Kazakh Рахат Мұхтарұлы Әлиев , Russian Рахат Мухтарович Алиев / rachat Muchtarowitsch Aliyev ; in 2010 he introduced the names of his wife and called himself Shoraz ; English transcription Rakhat Aliyev *  10. December 1962 in Alma-Ata , Kazakh SSR , Soviet Union ; † February 24, 2015 in Vienna , Austria ) was a Kazakh politician and diplomat. From 2005 to February 2007 he was Deputy Foreign Minister under the Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev , his father-in-law. Before and after that he was ambassador to Austria. In May 2007 there was a break with Nazarbayev. Since then, Kazakhstan has demanded the extradition of Aliev, Austria's judiciary refused.

On suspicion of being involved in a double murder in his home country, Aliyev was in custody in the Josefstadt prison in Vienna . On February 24, 2015, he was found hanged in his solitary cell.

Career under Nazarbayev

Rachat Aliyev, whose father was a minister in the Kazakh Soviet Republic in the 1980s, penetrated the center of power in Kazakhstan through his marriage to Darigha Nazarbayeva , the eldest daughter of the Kazakh president. He was a co-founder and main shareholder of Nurbank , head of tax investigations and deputy head of the secret service until he suddenly had to resign in November 2001. After rumors of a possible coup, Aliyev was sent to Austria as the Kazakh ambassador in 2002. After returning to Kazakhstan in 2005, he held the post of Vice Foreign Minister before being sent back to Austria as ambassador in 2007.

Suspicion of murder and escape

Aliyev's arrival in Austria took place in February, just a few days after the disappearance of two Nurbank managers without a trace on January 31, 2007. From mid-May 2007, the Kazakh authorities investigated the kidnapping , including those against Aliyev.

On May 26, 2007, Aliyev was deposed as ambassador, an arrest warrant was issued at the end of May and Austria requested to extradite the suspect. A Viennese court rejected the extradition request in August 2007 on the grounds that Allyev could not expect a fair trial in Kazakhstan. It stood behind Aliyev, who in an interview at the beginning of June had described the process as being purely politically motivated. It is revenge for his efforts to become president and for refusing to transfer company shares to the president and his followers.

On January 17, 2008, he was sentenced in absentia by a Kazakh court to 20 years in prison for founding a mafia-like association, and extradition was requested again by the Kazakh authorities. Only two months later, Aliyev and the former head of the secret service, Alnur Mousayev, were sentenced to another 20 years in a prison camp for planning a coup. According to information from the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution and Combating Terrorism , a total of three kidnapping attempts against Musayev and Vadim Koschljak, a confidante of Aliyev, which were financed and organized by the Kazakh secret service KNB , occurred between July and September 2008 . As a result, a Kazakh diplomat involved in the kidnapping attempts was withdrawn from Austria. In July 2009, the National Council set up a committee of inquiry when there were rumors that MPs had been influenced by the Kazakh secret service.

In August 2010, Älijew was accused of forming a criminal organization and money laundering in Austria. In January 2011, German authorities began investigating him for money laundering. A short time later, a Berlin law firm accused him of torturing and mistreating two Kazakhs. The Austrian authorities were accused from several quarters of inaction in the Aliyev case.

On May 18, 2011, the bodies of the two bank managers were found on Aliyev's former company premises. On June 16, 2011, Kazakhstan's second application for extradition was also rejected by the Vienna Regional Court, which was later criticized by the General Procuratorate at the Supreme Court. In July 2011, the Austrian judiciary also began investigating Aliyev for money laundering and murder. At this point he is said to have already been in Malta and adopted the name of his new wife, Shoraz. In this name he had already received an Austrian alien passport from the district administration in Horn in 2009 , which was withdrawn from him at the end of 2013. In December 2013, Aliyev was accused in Kazakhstan of having commissioned the murder of the opposition politician Altynbek Sarsenbajew in early 2006.

Rachat Älijew was arrested on June 6, 2014 when entering Austria at Vienna International Airport . Serious allegations are made against the law firm representing the Kazakh association Tagdyr . The judiciary classifies the association as a front organization of the Kazakh secret service.

Allyev was charged with murder at the end of December 2014. After his imprisonment in the Josefstadt prison, he is said to have been blackmailed by two other inmates.

Aliyev's crypt in the old arcades at Vienna's central cemetery

death

Älijew, who was supposed to testify on February 24, 2015 at a court hearing against "two former cellmates who are said to have blackmailed and threatened the Kazakhs", died the night before in his cell in the Josefstadt prison in Vienna. Several pieces of evidence - gauze bandages, according to the surveillance camera in the corridor, he had no visit to the cell during the night, according to the lock documentation of the door it was not opened at night - spoke for suicide . Klaus and Manfred Ainedter and Stefan Prochaska from Älijew's legal team, however, saw no risk of suicide, described him as “more of a fighter”, rated the time of death as “highly conspicuous” and expected a detailed investigation. Aliyev had spoken of extortion of protection money under threat of murder by fellow prisoners, and that the Kazakh secret service had enough agents in Austria to kill him, and that a bounty of 10 million euros had been placed on him in Kazakhstan.

Älijew is buried in a crypt in the old arcades of the Vienna Central Cemetery .

Brinkmann report

On December 12, 2016, the German forensic doctor Bernd Brinkmann explained his private opinion to the press in Vienna. It is based on the protocols of two autopsies, but also takes into account photos that were taken of the body before the autopsy. Brinkmann see from the pictures "bruises below the string brand on the neck", a "so-called Perthes'sche Druckstauung" and infers Burking , killing by top Put on the chest and closing his mouth and nose, so by foreign hands.

Brinkmann thinks that the first reviewer (from Vienna) was biased because he was convinced of the suicide. The second reviewer (St. Gallen, CH) did not use the pictures. The public prosecutor will request supplements from the previous experts.

Private life

In 1983 Aliyev married Dariga Nazarbayeva , the daughter of the Kazakh president. From this marriage came the three children Nurali, Aisoultan and Venera. Allyev and Dariga Nazarbayeva were divorced in June 2007 without his consent.

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  1. ↑ a b Controversial questions about Aliyev's death: Verfassungsschutz determined . ORF.at , February 24, 2015
  2. ↑ Kazakh ex-ambassador Aliyev dead: lawyer doubts suicide . orf.at, February 24, 2015.
  3. ↑ Kazakhstan's ex-ambassador Rachat Aliyev: Dead in the cell . AFP article on FAZ.net , February 24, 2015.
  4. ↑ a b Crime about diplomats: Chronology of the case of Rakhat Aliyev . ( Memento from December 4, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) krone.at , June 17, 2011
  5. ↑ Martin Staudinger: "I am now public enemy number 1" . Profile , June 2, 2007.
  6. ^ The Aliyev case: Kazakh ex-ambassador arrested in Vienna . ( Memento from April 3, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) WirtschaftsBlatt , June 6, 2014.
  7. ↑ a b Chronology: The case of Aliyev . orf.at , June 6, 2014, as of April 29, 2015; accessed on June 15, 2015.
  8. ↑ No extradition of Aliyev: Harsh criticism . ORF.at , February 20, 2012.
  9. ^ Causa Aliyev: For new experts Mord orf.at, December 12, 2016., accessed December 12, 2016.
  10. ↑ Nazarbayev's son-in-law Aliyev divorced . Russia News , June 12, 2007.
personal data
SURNAME Aliyev, Rachat
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Älijew, Rachat Muchtaruly (full name); Aliyev, Rachat Muchtarowitsch; Shoraz, Rachat; Aliyev, Rakhat; Әлиев, Рахат Мұхтарұлы (kkS); Алиев, Рахат Мухтарович (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Kazakh politician and diplomat
DATE OF BIRTH December 10, 1962
PLACE OF BIRTH Alma-Ata , Kazakh SSR , Soviet Union
DATE OF DEATH February 24, 2015
Place of death Vienna , Austria