NUR-SULTAN -- Kazakh tycoon Qairat Boranbaev, whose daughter was the wife of a late grandson of former President Nursultan Nazarbaev, has been placed in pretrial detention on embezzlement charges.
A court in Almaty ruled that Boranbaev, 55, must stay in pretrial detention for at least two months, the Kazakh Agency of Financial Monitoring said on March 17.
Boranbaev's daughter, Alima Boranbaeva, and Nazarbaev's grandson, Aisultan Nazarbaev, married in 2013. In September 2020, Aisultan Nazarbaev, who suffered from drug addiction and had run-ins with the law in the United Kingdom, died in London at the age of 29.
Also on March 17, Kazakhstan's Anti-Corruption Agency said that the wife of Nazarbaev's nephew Qairat Satybaldyuly, Gulmira Satybaldy, was detained a day earlier, on charges of the illegal takeover of a private business.
On March 15, Kazakh authorities said that Nazarbaev's nephew, Qairat Satybaldyuly, had been placed in pretrial detention for two months on charges of embezzlement and abuse of power.