Serik Akhmetov
Serik Nyghmetuly Akhmetov ( Kazakh Серік Нығметұлы Ахметов , Russian Серик Ныгметович Ахметов ; born June 25, 1958 in Temirtau , Kazakh SSR ) is a Kazakh politician and former Prime Minister of Kazakhstan and .
biography
Political career
Akhmetov was in 1986 for the first secretary of the regional committee of Komsomol in the region Karaganda . From 1990 to 1993 he graduated from the Russian Academy of Management and then worked for the metallurgical combine in Karagandy.
From 2001 to 2003 Akhmetov was mayor of his hometown Temirtau. In the following two years he filled the post of deputy mayor of the Kazakh capital Astana . On September 25, 2006, he was appointed Minister of Transport and Communications by the President before becoming Deputy Prime Minister of Kazakhstan. On November 19, 2009, he was appointed Äkim of the Karagandy region by decree of the Kazakh President .
On January 20, 2012, Akhmetov became Kazakhstan's first deputy prime minister. From September 24, 2012, he was Prime Minister of the Republic of Kazakhstan.
After Akhmetov resigned as Prime Minister at the beginning of April 2014 without giving a reason, he was appointed Minister of Defense of Kazakhstan on April 3, 2014. He held this post until October 22, 2014.
Criminal proceedings
On November 19, 2014, Akhmetov was placed under house arrest by a court in Karaganda on serious charges of corruption . Specifically, he was accused of bribery , embezzlement of around 1.1 billion tenge , three cases of abuse of office with damage of one billion tenge to the state and involvement in illegal corporate activities. He himself denied all allegations. In addition to Akhmetov, there were corruption allegations against a number of other high-ranking politicians in the country, including against Bauyrshan Abbdishev , the former governor of the Karagandy region and Meiram Smaghulov , the former mayor of Karagandy .
On December 11, 2015, Akhmetov was sentenced to ten years in prison by the regional court in Karagandy for corruption, despite the rejection of the allegations. It was the first time in the country's history that a member of the political elite to a custodial sentence had been convicted. He appealed the judgment and then pleaded guilty and asked for leniency. On March 14, 2016, an appeals court in Karaganda reduced his term by two years. In January 2017, as part of a mass amnesty to mark the 25th anniversary of Kazakhstan's independence , his prison term was again reduced by one year and seven months.
On September 21, 2017, Akhmetov was released on parole.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Kazinform: Nazarbayev signs decree to appoint Akhmetov as Prime Minister (English)
- ^ Tengri News: Ex-Prime Minister Serik Akhmetov appointed Defense Minister
- ↑ Tengri News: Ex-Prime Minister of Kazakhstan appears before court , accessed June 24, 2017.
- ^ Deutsche Welle: Kazakhstan's ex-prime minister has to go to jail
- ↑ Serik Akhmetov's prison term shortened , accessed June 24, 2017.
- ↑ rferl.org: Former Kazakh Prime Minister Akhmetov To Be Released From Prison Early , accessed on August 21, 2018.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Akhmetov, Serik |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Ахметов, Серік Нығметұлы (Kazakh) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Kazakh politician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 25, 1958 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Temirtau |