198.- Asia - Kazakhstan - Aigul Nuriyeva
According to freedomeurasia.org Aigul Nuriyeva is one of Kazakhstan’s richest women. In 2014 her wealth was estimated at $780 million, and in 2019 at $350 million by Forbes, who ranked her as Kazakhstan’s 19th richest person. The exact origins of her wealth are unclear.
Nuriyeva has occupied a key figure in the Kazakh telecoms industry: she has been a director and shareholder in state controlled Kazakhtelecom JSC (2006-2016), holding at one point as much as 26 percent of the company; a shareholder of telecoms company Tele2 Kazakhstan (2007-2015); an indirect shareholder (through her shareholding in Kazakhtelecom) in Kcell (unknown start date to 2016); and a shareholder in telecommunication and information technology services company KazTransCom (from 2018).
She has been the subject of allegations that she is a proxy for political figures in Kazakhstan, especially Karim Masimov, a former Kazakh Prime Minister, who is currently the head of the National Security Committee of the Republic of Kazakhstan (often referred to by its Russian initials, KNB), the country’s security service.
A paper outlining due diligence published by telecoms company Tele2 in 2014 identified Nuriyeva as a politically-exposed person (PEP) – someone with a higher risk for potential involvement in corruption – and circumstantial evidence that some kind of agreement was likely to be in place between Nuriyeva and Masimov. It also noted “an indirect link” between Tele2 Kazakhstan and Masimov.
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