“I decided to break the silence. More than 40 days have passed since the tragic death of Saltanat. The children and I needed time to comprehend and realize what happened.
My children and I sincerely sympathize with Saltanat’s family in their irreparable loss. I didn’t know her personally, but the children became friends with her and remember her as a bright, kind and very sympathetic person,” Nazim wrote on her Instagram page.
She told how her and Bishimbayev’s joint children perceived the incident.
“This tragedy, of course, is even more painful because all this was done by a seemingly close person to them, who should have been their support, support and example. But instead, it is scary, ashamed and unbearably painful.
Despite all the difficulties and hardships that befell my children, which, of course, cannot be compared with the pain of losing Saltanat’s relatives, I believe and know that they will always be on the side of good and light,” Nazim wrote.
Let us remember that she was officially married to Kuandyk Bishimbayev for 14 years. The couple divorced in 2020, a year after the ex-minister was released from prison. They have three children.
Earlier, the lawyer of the Saltanat Nukenova family, Zhanna Urazbakhova, commented on the progress of the investigation of the case. She said that the case was being investigated under paragraph 5 of part 2 of Article 99. Also, the lawyer on behalf of Nukenova’s family stated that “there has been no reconciliation and there will not be.”
The detention of ex-minister Kuandyk Bishimbayev became known on November 9 this year. As previously reported, on November 8, in one of the restaurants in Astana, a quarrel occurred between visitors, as a result of which a woman died from her injuries. Later it became known that the wife of the ex-minister, Saltanat Nukenova, was killed.
Bishimbayev was detained on the same day on suspicion of murder and is under arrest. On November 11, Saltanat Nukenova was buried in Pavlodar. The couple were married for about a year.
On November 14, the police announced the arrest of the director of the Gastro Center, where the tragedy occurred.
Later, the case against Bishimbayev was reclassified. In total, criminal cases have been opened under four articles:
– under Part 2 of Article 99 of the Criminal Code “Murder committed with extreme cruelty”;
– under Article 432 of the Criminal Code “Concealment”;
– Article 119 of the Criminal Code “Leaving in danger”;
– Article 434 of the Criminal Code “Failure to report a crime.”
