Samanbek Nurqadilow

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Samanbek Qalabajuly Nurqadilow ( Kazakh Заманбек Қалабайұлы Нұрқаділов , Russian Заманбек Калабаевич Нуркадилов * 15. January 1944 in Kegen, Kazakh SSR ; † 12. November 2005 in Almaty ) was a Kazakh politician.

Life

Samanbek Nurqadilow was born in 1944 in the village of Kegen in the Almaty region. He studied at the Faculty of Civil Engineering of the Kazakh Polytechnic Institute . He then worked in local and regional construction companies for almost 20 years. From November 1985 Nurqadilow was chairman of the executive committee at the head of the city of Alma-Ata , was replaced in 1991 by Viktor Khrapunov in this position.

After the dissolution of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union Nurqadilow was again head of the city administration of Alma-Ata (from 1993 Almaty). He held this post until 1994 and was then replaced by Shalbay Kulmachanov. In the parliamentary elections in December 1995 he was elected as a member of the Maschilis , the lower house of the Kazakh parliament. After he had complained several times about the corruption in Kazakhstan under Nursultan Nazarbayev during his time as a member of parliament and also criticized the relocation of the capital from Almaty to the distant Aqmola (today Astana) and the associated move of parliament and refused to be a member of the parliament of Parliament to move to Aqmola, he was appointed Äkim (Governor) of the Almaty region in December 1997 . When it was decided in April 2001 to move the administrative headquarters of the area from Almaty to Taldyqorghan , he again refused to leave Almaty. He then became chairman of the agency for emergency situations.

At a press conference on March 11, 2004, Nurqadilov strongly criticized Nazarbayev and asked him to resign. He also accused him of abuse of power, bribery, ethics violations and election fraud . He also regretted having been a “puppet” of the President in the past. After Nurqadilov accused Nazarbayev and other officials of being involved in the death of a journalist in July 2004, a court sentenced him to a fine for defamation in June 2005.

On November 12, 2005, he was found dead in his home in Almaty. He had two gunshot wounds to the chest and one gunshot wound to the head, and a pistol was found next to him. The Kazakh authorities later stated that he had committed suicide, whereas critics of the Kazakh government found the portrayal ridiculous, described it as physically impossible and did not want to rule out a political murder.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Deutsche Welle: З.Нуркадилов: чтобы в Европе заговорили о Назарбаеве ... , accessed on May 7, 2017 (Russian).
  2. ↑ Radio Free Europe: Key Politician Calls For Kazakh President's Resignation , accessed May 7, 2017.
  3. ↑ Radio Free Europe: Central Asia Report: June 14, 2005 , accessed May 7, 2017.
  4. ↑ Radio Free Europe: Kazakh Opposition Wants Probe Of Politician's Death , accessed May 7, 2017
  5. ↑ LA Times: Kazakh's Death Called Political Killing , accessed May 7, 2017.
personal data
SURNAME Nurqadilow, Samanbek
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Нұрқаділов, Заманбек Қалабайұлы (Kazakh); Нуркадилов, Заманбек Калабаевич (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Kazakh politician
DATE OF BIRTH January 15, 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH Kegen, Kazakh SSR
DATE OF DEATH November 12, 2005
Place of death Almaty