In Kazakhstan, purges appear to be underway, a week after the situation calmed down after several days of deadly riots in the first week of January. Family members of former President Nursultan Nazarbayev are removed from their posts.
With our correspondent in Tbilisi, Regis Gente
This Saturday, two sons-in-law of Mr. Nazarbayev lost their seats on the boards of directors of public oil and gas companies.
Kairat Sharipbayev, husband or partner of Dariga, the first of the three Nazarbayev daughters, will no longer sit on the board of directors of KazakhGaz.
As for Dimash Dossanov, he left the governing bodies of Kaztransoil, where he had made a sensational entry in August 2016, shortly after his marriage to Aliya, the youngest of the Nazarbayev daughters.
It is a way for the current head of state, Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, to satisfy the population, who have been out on the streets since January 2 after the price of fuel for cars, gas, has doubled. of liquefied petroleum.
The population was quick to point out the culprit: the former president, Noursultan Nazarbayev, 81, who in fact was still pulling the strings of the country.
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But we should not see in the dismissal of these two sons-in-law the sign of an absolute eradication of the ex-reigning family of the so juicy Kazakh energy sector, far from it. The third son-in-law, Timour Koulibaïev, lives “Mr. Petroleum” in Kazakhstan. Too powerful to be dethroned, some say. The new Minister of Energy, Bolat Akchoulakov, is moreover one of his men.