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KAZAKH POLICE FIND REMAINS POSSIBLY BELONGING TO KIDNAPPED BANKER
10/18/07
A EurasiaNet Partner Post from BBC Monitoring

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Excerpt from report by Interfax-Kazakhstan news agency

Almaty, 17 October: Kazakhstan’s investigative agencies do not rule out that the remains of a person that have been discovered near Almaty could belong to one of the kidnapped members of staff of the commercial [bank], Nurbank.

"To date an investigative and operational group has found out some details of this crime (the kidnap of members of staff of Nurbank, Zholdas Timraliyev and Aybar Khasenov)," the first deputy head of the police department of Almaty, Amantay Aubakirov, said at a news conference today.

[Passage omitted: the remains of the person were found in Almaty Region on 16 October following testimony by one of the suspects]

[He added:] "The investigation does not rule out that the remains belong to one of the kidnapped persons (members of staff of Nurbank)."

As is known, now the former son-in-law of the president [Nursultan Nazarbayev] and the country’s ex-ambassador to Austria, Rakhat Aliyev, is charged with masterminding the kidnap of the aforementioned members of staff of Nurbank.

Editor�s Note: Source: Interfax-Kazakhstan news agency, Almaty, in Russian 1006 gmt 17 Oct 07

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