The British National Crime Agency has asked the grandson of former President of Kazakhstan, Nur Sultan Nazarbayev, to explain the source from whom he obtained the money to buy a palace in millions of pounds, on one of the most expensive roads in north London. The value of the house, along with two other sites, is 80 million pounds ($ 104 million), according to National Crime Agency estimates, and contains an underground pool and cinema.
This house is occupied by Nurali Aliyev, his wife, Aida, and their children. Aliyev is 35, and is the grandson of the former President of Kazakhstan, Nursultan Nazarbayev. The agency has banned any attempt to sell the property, and argues that the wealth used to buy it was related to the father of Nurali Aliyev, Rakhat Aliyev, and the son-in-law of the former president, Jahangir Hajiyeva, who was found hanged in an Austrian prison in 2015, after being accused of killing two bankers in In the year 2007.
This is the second time that the agency has used orders for so-called “unjustified wealth” in Britain since its approval in 2018. The National Crime Agency can use it to require owners to disclose how they obtained these assets, and if they do not respond to orders the agency can ask Courts confiscated.
Last Tuesday, two foreign companies confirmed to the Supreme Court that they own the property, and called for the orders to be canceled. The representative of the two companies, Claire Montgomery, says that the justifications given by the agency regarding the drug are flimsy, such as "paper wipes unrelated to Rakhat Aliyev." Montgomery said that the real estate financing came from Nurali Aliyev's mother, Dargha Nazarbayeva, who she said was economically independent.
In a statement issued later, the mother denied any wrongdoing, and her spokesperson said: "The agency has provided all the information it needs to confirm that it was not involved in any violations, and there is no justification for this case." "Dr. Nazarbayeva would like to make clear that she was not a party to any wrongdoing, and she is looking forward to a quick conclusion of the matter," he added. Nurali Aliyev's lawyers also issued a statement saying that he had tried to assist the agency's investigations. Aliyev worked as head of the best music channel in Kazakhstan in 2006 at the age of 21, and became a banker a year later, and he was paid 26 thousand dollars a month as a salary for his chairmanship of the board of the seventh largest bank in the country, along with his mother.
The head of oil-rich Kazakhstan, Nur Sultan Nazarbayev, has been widely criticized by opponents for giving his family members high positions in the government, banks and others.
People have bought property worth more than five billion pounds in the United Kingdom with suspicious wealth, which may be the source of suspicion of corruption, according to the UK's Transparency International. The first order on "unjustified wealth" was issued in Britain against the assets of the former president's son-in-law, who was in prison in Azerbaijan for embezzlement from the State Bank, and his wife, Zamira, who spent 16.3 million pounds at the Harrods department store in London .
The value of the house, along with two other sites, is $ 104 million, according to estimates by the National Crime Agency, and contains an underground pool and a cinema.