The son-in-law of the first President of Kazakhstan, Nursultan Nazarbayev, Timur Kulibayev, has resigned as chairman of the presidium of the Kazakh National Chamber of Entrepreneurs (NCE) Atameken, the press service of the chamber reported. On January 15, the Samruk-Kazyna State Fund reported that two more sons-in-law of Mr. Nazarbayev, Chairman of the Board of KazTransOil JSC Dimash Dosanov and Chairman of the Board of National Company QazaqGaz JSC Kairat Sharipbaev, left their posts.
“We respect the personal decision of Timur Askarovich and express our gratitude for the years of joint work. Timur Kulibayev stood at the origins of the creation of the National Chamber of Entrepreneurs and made a great contribution to the formation of the chamber as a constructive dialogue platform for business and government,” the chamber said in a statement. The candidature of the acting chairman of the presidium of the chamber will be chosen at the next meeting.
Timur Kulibayev has been the Chairman of the Presidium of the Chamber since 2010, before that he was the Deputy Chairman of the Board of JSC National Wealth Fund Samruk-Kazyna. Mr. Kulibayev is the husband of Dinara Kulibayeva, Nazarbayev’s middle daughter. Dimash Dosanov is the husband of the youngest daughter of Nursultan Nazarbayev, Aliya, Kairat Sharipbayev, according to media reports, is in an unofficial marriage with the eldest daughter of the first president of Kazakhstan, Dariga.
In early January, mass protests began in Kazakhstan due to an increase in prices for liquefied gas. Later, the actions turned into riots. At the request of the protesters, the previous government of Kazakhstan resigned. Also, the President of Kazakhstan, Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, said that from January 5 he became the chairman of the Security Council. This post was assigned to Nursultan Nazarbayev for life. The Kazakh edition Orda wrote about the departure of the former president and his daughters abroad after the start of the protests. Later, the Ambassador of Kazakhstan to Azerbaijan, Serzhan Abdykarimov, stated that Mr. Nazarbayev was in Nur-Sultan. His press office insisted that he did not leave the country.
About the consequences of the protests – in the material “Kommersant” “The situation in Kazakhstan has been brought under control.”
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