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Nazarbayev, 81, was the longest-serving leader of any former
Soviet state, running Kazakhstan between 1989 and 2019, first as
Communist Party boss and then as president.
Several members of his family and former associates are among
Kazakhstan's richest people, according to Forbes magazine:
- Dinara Kulibayeva, Nazarbayev's second daughter, and her
husband Timur Kulibayev are the majority shareholders of Halyk
Bank, Kazakhstan's biggest lender by assets. Their stake's
market value stands at about $2.8 billion.
- Kairat Boranbayev, the father-in-law of Nazarbayev's late
grandson Aisultan, has interests in commercial real estate, owns
the McDonald's franchise in Kazakhstan and Belarus, and has
interests in many other sectors.
- Bulat Utemuratov, Nazarbayev's former aide, has interests in
property development, banking and telecommunications. He has
stakes in global commodities giant Glencore and an offshoot of
Britain's Haileybury school in Kazakhstan, according to Forbes.
- Though not listed by Forbes, Nazarbayev's eldest daughter
Dariga Nazarbayeva and her son Nurali Aliyev own a property
portfolio in Britain estimated by The Times newspaper as worth
140 million pounds, including the Baker Street address of the
fictional character Sherlock Holmes.
In 2020, they successfully fought an "unexplained wealth order"
from Britain's National Crime agency, which had sought to seize
three homes worth an estimated $80 million. Nazarbayeva argued
that her wealth was the legitimate product of her success as a
businesswoman.
Her ex-husband Rakhat Aliyev, a wealthy former Kazakh government
official, died in jail in Austria in 2015 while awaiting trial
for murder.
(Reporting by Olzhas Auyezov; Editing by Peter Graff)
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