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SUSPECT DETAINED IN KILLING OF FORMER KAZAKH MINISTER

Police in western Kazakhstan have detained a suspect in the contract killing of former Industry Minister Khairulla Ospanov in May, Interfax-Kazakhstan reported on 14 July, quoting the Mangystau Oblast internal-affairs press service. Ospanov headed the state Oil Construction Company at the time of his death. The suspect, named as Bakhtiyar Taimukhamedov, was apprehended in the oil town of Aktau, the administrative center of Mangystau Oblast, after escaping from a medical facility in Aktau where he was undergoing psychiatric tests. Taimukhamedov is suspected of having organized Ospanov's killing. BB

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