Alnur Mussayev

Alnur Mussayev was a former head of Kazakhstan's National Security Committee (KNB), Kazakhstan's intelligence agency under the tenure of President Nursultan Nazarbayev. In 2007 Mussayev fled Kazakhstan along with his deputy Rakhat Aliyev to Vienna, Austria. Mr. Mussayev accused the government of widespread corruption and payments of millions of dollars in bribes by western oil companies to President Nazarbayev. The government of Kazakhstan has convicted him of crimes in absentia as a result of his defection. [http://www.knb.kz/page.php?page_id=69 National Security Committee of The Republic of Kazakhstan :: Messages] , retrieved September 25, 2008] An attempted kidnapping of Mussayev took place in Vienna in September 2008. The Austrian government is investigating the incident and have not commented on the perpetrators origins. [http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122239136187677449.html?mod=fox_Australian Austria Investigates Bid to Kidnap Kazakh Exile] by Susan Schmidt and David Crawford, Wall Street Journal, retrieved September 25, 2008]

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