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Karim Massimov accused of high treason
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Two days before the arrest, a longtime associate of ex-President Nazarbayev, Karim Massimov, was removed from office.
In Kazakhstan, the former chairman of the National Security Committee (KNB) Karim Massimov was detained on suspicion of high treason. This was announced on Saturday, January 8, by the press service of the National Security Committee of Kazakhstan.
“On January 6 of this year, the National Security Committee launched a pre-trial investigation into high treason, under article 175 of part 1 of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Kazakhstan. On the same day, on suspicion of committing this crime, the former chairman of the KNB Karim Massimov and others were detained and placed in a temporary detention center. persons “, – the message says.
Two days earlier, Massimov, a longtime associate of the ex-President of Kazakhstan Nursultan Nazarbayev, was fired from his post as chairman of the National Security Committee (KNB) of Kazakhstan. In this post, he was replaced by Ermek Sagimbayev, who worked as the head of the State Security Service.
56-year-old Karim Massimov was transferred to the post of chairman of the KNB in September 2016 from his post as head of government. The first time he served as prime minister from 2007 to 2012. For the second time – from April 2014 until his appointment as head of the KNB.
On the eve of the ex-adviser to the first president of Kazakhstan, Nursultan Nazarbayev, Yermukhamet Yertysbayev, said that one of the reasons for the crisis in the country was the betrayal of some top officials and law enforcement officers. He described what was happening as an attempt at a coup d’etat and an armed rebellion, and its scale says that “without the traitors of the highest echelon of power, especially law enforcement agencies, it was impossible to carry out.”
We will remind, on the eve of the media reported that Nazarbayev and his family left Kazakhstan… Before that, Nazarbayev’s nephew Samat Abish was detained in Kazakhstan. He was previously removed from his post as First Deputy Chairman of the National Security Committee.
As reported, the de facto withdrawal from politics of the former President Nazarbayev was one of the the main demands of the protesters In Kazakhstan.
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