The son of Sergei Manevich, the “right hand” of Nazarbayev’s former son-in-law, came to Kazakhstan from Dubai to take revenge for publications about his father, his uncle excused him from serving time – Alexander Klebanov

The organizers of attacks on media representatives, which have become more frequent over the past six months, were preparing to set fire to the editorial offices of a number of publications and cripple Samal Ibraeva, editor-in-chief of the Ulysmedia website, the source reports.

“Son Sergei Manevichone of the thugs Rakhat Aliyeva (former son-in-law of ex-president Nursultan Nazarbayevwas married to Dariga Nazarbayeva – KazTAG), Arkady Klebanov (Manevich – KazTAG) planned the arson of editorial offices. The attackers wanted to throw Molotov cocktails at the buildings and premises of the publications Orda, Elmedia and a number of others,” a source familiar with the situation told KazTAG on Saturday.

At the same time, some planned actions, according to him, were perverted and sadistic in nature.

“He (Klebanov – KazTAG) came up with perverted methods of intimidation – for example, they planned to pour urine on female journalists. He was looking for performers who were ready to cut off and break the fingers of female journalists. He also offered T2 million to anyone who would physically injure Ibraeva,” the agency’s interlocutor added.

Let us note that according to political scientist Erbol Yedilov, Klebanov is “a strong IT specialist who took part in the development of Egov and other key programs and applications for the state.”

“He turned out to be the son of Rakhat Aliyev’s “right hand” – Sergei Manevich, who in the 1990s was one of the leaders of the organized crime group of the ex-president’s son-in-law, organizing and personally taking part in racketeering, raiding, kidnappings and murders. Manevich’s special specialty was the “pacification” of journalists and social activists disliked by the Family. Thus, his militants smashed a chair over the head of the chairman of the executive committee of the Azamat party, Platon Pak, and stabbed him in the stomach and neck, and, trying to make Gulzhan Ergalieva more loyal to the authorities, they brutally beat her family members and hung the corpse of a dog on the editorial window.” , wrote the political scientist.

According to him, when Aliyev fled the country, an entire technical base for wiretapping and other espionage was found in Manevich’s house and office.

“Following the boss, Manevich also fled, leaving his family. At some point, Arkady followed his father’s path and began working in the market for hacking services, which were in conflict with national laws in many jurisdictions. Until recently, Klebanov lived in Dubai, where he was engaged in trading on the cryptocurrency exchange, and from there he ordered and coordinated attacks on journalists. So the fact that Klebanov began to “destroy” liberal journalists who were actively investigating the actions of Old Kazakhstan is not at all surprising. The echo of “old Kazakhstan” is heard again, Edilov added.

The Ministry of Internal Affairs announced Klebanov’s detention on March 4, clarifying that he was detained and placed under arrest.

Let us recall that on February 28, the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Kazakhstan reported the detention of the coordinator of provocative attacks – a foreign citizen, a qualified hacker O. Tokarev. He is charged with over 30 provocations against Gulnar Ergalieva and a number of other representatives of the media. Among the crimes charged are arson of vehicles, threats and attacks on journalists, their relatives and editorial offices, hacking, and DDoss attacks. The purpose of the attacks was said to be an imitation of persecution of representatives of the media “to discredit the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan and the democratic reforms he is carrying out.” According to the court, the alleged coordinator was taken into custody for two months on February 24. On March 2, it was reported that possible accomplices of the suspect in organizing attacks on Kazakhstani journalists had been identified – these were four foreign citizens who were promised to be put on the international wanted list.

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© nomad.su04/08/2014

Manevich’s mystery

Where did the main informant and witness to Rakhat Aliyev’s crimes disappear?

Vasily Smirnov

Journalists, of course, are a cynical people, but sometimes we too can be touched to the quick. The work of a journalist is an ordinary office routine, only instead of boring stationery and office documents, no less boring materials about dismembered corpses, brazen corruption, and other vices of the society in which we live are transferred from place to place. The abundance of chernukha, and daily, turns that organ in the brain that is responsible for sensory perception, empathy, moral pain from other people’s troubles, into a common work blister. Only occasionally does something skip a beat in the depths, but 15 minutes after the material is delivered to the room, everything is safely forgotten. But there are times when you want to dig, and the deeper the better. “Dig” means going through all the chains of the birth of facts to the end. Here, on the Respublika portal, two articles appeared, united by a common informational reason – a letter from an anonymous person about Kazakh businessman Alexander Klebanov. The first letter told who Klebanov was doing his business with now. The second suddenly introduced into the country’s information circulation a name that had already been heard in 2007-2008, when the whole country followed the fall from the yawning peak of power of Rakhat Aliyev, who at one time was considered almost the only contender for the presidential post. Moreover, this opinion was introduced into the information circulation by Rakhat Aliyev himself back in the early 2000s, when the famous website “Aziopa” existed with his money, where the country’s highest-ranking names were rinsed and information about the state of the Kazakh political backstage, closed from the public, was voiced.

Aliyev’s subsequent project on the YouTube portal – the so-called “wiretapping” of telephone conversations of officials and leading opposition figures in the country – became a pathetic imitation of “Aziope”. However, wiretaps were made after the fall of Aliyev, when Rakhat no longer had any journalistic resources or information platforms.

So, in 2007, this name appeared in this message (and several similar ones): “The investigative group of the National Security Committee of the Republic of Kazakhstan ends with the production of criminal case No. 07710104700026 against Aliev Rakhat Mukhtarovich, Musaev Alnur Alzhaparovich and Manevich Sergei Georgievich on the fact of creation and management they are an organized criminal group and commit within it a number of grave and especially grave crimes provided for by the Criminal Code of the Republic of Kazakhstan.

In this criminal case, in accordance with Part 1 of Article 206 of the Criminal Procedure Code of the Republic of Kazakhstan, the preliminary investigation body against Aliyev PM, Musaev A.A. and Manevich S.G. decisions were made to charge them as defendants.

In connection with the location of these persons outside the Republic of Kazakhstan, in accordance with Part 3 of Article 208 of the Code of Criminal Procedure of the Republic of Kazakhstan, they are notified that the filing of charges is scheduled on November 14, 2007 at 10.00 Astana time at the address: 010000, Astana, Krivoguz St., 2, office No. 6, Investigation Department of the National Security Committee of the Republic of Kazakhstan, and they are asked to arrive at the appointed time to file charges.

At the same time, it is explained to them that, in accordance with Part 2 of Article 206 of the Code of Criminal Procedure of the Republic of Kazakhstan, they have the right to invite a defense lawyer to bring charges or petition the investigative body to ensure the participation of a defense lawyer…” This name is Sergei Georgievich Manevich. We specifically provided the message in full so that readers noted an interesting detail for themselves: according to it, Aliyev, Musaev and Manevich will be convicted in absentia – since they are outside the borders of the Republic of Kazakhstan.

Now let’s turn to the publication on the Respublika portal, which is called “Who quietly listened to Nazarbayev?” (published on March 14, 2014): “…Firstly, the following comment appeared in the comments to the material: “Klebanov has a niece, Marina Klebanova, the daughter of his older brother. She was married to Sergei Manevich, one of the main defendants in the coup d’etat case. Sergei Manevich carried out wiretapping for Elbasy, for which he most likely paid with his life. In any case, he is not among the fugitives and prisoners in the coup d’etat case. A large volume of Manevich’s wiretaps passed through the hands (ears) of Klebanov and Sinitsin. That’s it, brothers Kazakhs. And you’re flapping your ears.”

Secondly, we received another letter, and in it, among others, the same Sergei Manevich is mentioned. We do not know who the author of this letter is, and whether he is the same person who sent us the first letter about Alexander Klebanov, but we note that it was sent from a different email address.

So, our anonymous “correspondent” reports that Sergei Manevich was indeed one of the main defendants in the criminal case initiated by the national security authorities against Rakhat Aliyev and Alnur Musaev. And that, on the instructions of the latter, he wiretapped the Elbasy’s telephone conversations using special technical means.

According to our “informant”, the base with special equipment was located in the city of Almaty on Zharokova Street, in the Almagul microdistrict, in the premises of a car service station, and it belonged to the Manevich brothers. Currently there is a service station and a Thai restaurant there…”

That is, Sergei Manevich was precisely the link through which Rakhat Aliyev received the “wiretapping” we are familiar with. It turns out, if you believe Respublika, Rakhat is not the only one: “The received data was subsequently processed and passed on to interested parties. The interested parties were Rakhat Aliyev, Alnur Musaev, Akezhan Kazhegeldin, Baurzhan Mukhamedzhanov and Karim Masimov…” Rakhat, according to the “republican” anonymous author, got in touch with Manevich through Klebanov, and he has known the businessman since his student days. Moreover, “during the events of the autumn of 2001, Klebanov hid Aliyev in his mansion…”. In gratitude for the information obtained, Aliyev paid Manevich with 10 acres of land in the Baganashil microdistrict.

Alnur Musayev, writes Respublika, was also closely associated with Alexander Klebanov, since the latter carried out some confidential assignments – requests from the then head of the Security Operations Department of the Republic of Kazakhstan. For example, he exchanged Musaev’s white Mercedes-140 official car with license plate number 20 KZ for a similar one, but black. And from another source – the newspaper “Liter” – we learn that Musaev not only had business with Klebanov, but also directly with Manevich: “…Now about the most important and intriguing thing – who benefited from initiating this criminal case. The persecution of Tokmoldaeva began several years ago, the story unfolded around one plot of land with an area of ​​2 hectares in the center of Almaty. The woman borrowed part of the money to pay for the purchase from her friend Sergei Manevich. Yes, you were not mistaken, this is the same Manevich. director of the Almagul car service complex, a friend of the disgraced Rakhat Aliyev and a suspected raider. It turned out that Mr. Manevich knew how not only to be friends with the “right” people, but also to conduct a business in the purchase and sale of land plots in Almaty. So I turned to him. Zauresh Tokmoldaeva’s time.

Sergei Manevich agreed to find people who would lend, of course, at a certain interest rate. On the appointed day, a friend of the ex-ambassador brought a certain citizen, and a loan agreement was concluded with her. The time has come to announce the name of the lender. Mrs. Dzhiembaeva is the sister of General Alnur Musaev. Musaev himself is known to Kazakhstanis not only because he previously held senior positions in the Ministry of Internal Affairs and was also the chairman of the National Security Committee, but also because he is now on the international wanted list on suspicion of complicity in the kidnapping of Nurbank managers. According to Zauresh Tokmoldaeva, the general suddenly began to show a keen interest in this site and approached her with an offer to give the land at a bargain price, counting on the fact that she would not be able to refuse the all-powerful general. But, since the businesswoman had paid off the loan in full by that time, she still refused Musaev. As a result, Tokmoldaeva got into huge troubles, which resulted in criminal prosecution…” (11/16/2007).

Let’s continue reading “Respublika”: “…Akezhan Kazhegeldin, then the Prime Minister of the Republic of Kazakhstan, and then an emigrant, received wiretapping materials through his authorized representative, Colonel Pyotr Kirillovich Afanasenko, Kazhegeldin’s former personal security guard, who at that time worked as the head of the Stagecoach security company “…”. Let us pause to remind you that Afanasenko recently filed a lawsuit against Rakhat Aliyev, accusing him of torture that was used to force Kazhegeldin’s bodyguards to testify against their boss – testifying that Akezhan Magzhanovich was preparing a coup. Aliyev concocted such a story at one time in order to remove Kazhegeldin, who was seriously perceived by society as an adequate alternative to Nazarbayev, from the policy. And how should we approach this story now, when it turns out that Kazhegeldin and Aliyev were fed information from the same source?

We go further: “Baurzhan Mukhamedzhanov, formerly Deputy Prime Minister of the Republic of Kazakhstan, Minister of Justice and Internal Affairs of the Republic of Kazakhstan, akim of the region, now the Ambassador of the Republic of Kazakhstan to Lithuania, was a business partner of Alexander Klebanov. It was he who lobbied for the sale of Eximbank to him.”

Karim Masimov, the current head of the presidential administration, has long maintained close contacts with Alexander Klebanov, and recently uses him to cover his media holding and carry out some risky business transactions…”.

But literally three years ago, colleagues of the Respublika journalists, the editors of the newspaper Vzglyad, gave completely different information about Manevich, referring to Aliyev. We quote a small piece of the material “Nazarbayev’s son-in-law reveals the secrets of Ak Horda” (05/18/2011): “Speaking about the morals reigning in Nazarbayev’s entourage, the former ambassador spoke about the fate of the president’s recent ally Sarybai Kalmurzaev:

“Recently, he still controlled huge cash flows, and today he sits in Germany, pretending to be sick, and is afraid to return to Kazakhstan. What happened to this business executive? The answer is simple: he was framed by Abykaev’s people (Manevich, Nakhmanovich). They carried out a successful provocation through the arrested Musabekov – the former head of the department of the Prosecutor General’s Office, who was a close connection with Kalmurzaev “…”.

That is, Rakhat Aliyev forwarded the version that Manevich was Abykaev’s man. And who is Nakhmanovich, next door to Manevich? Oh, this is also an interesting personality, and a wealth of factual information about him was recently published in Gulzhan Ergalieva’s magazine “Adambol”: “Back in 1992, he, being the head of the Dzhambyl commercial bank, together with his Russian colleague Alexander Smolensky… threw away almost 2 billion rubles from the Central Bank of Russia (*aggressor country)…, having transferred the funds to Austria. The scam was discovered immediately, and a criminal case was opened against two friends (most likely, they are united by “Dzhambul universities”), and Smolensky was charged with laundering money earned from selling drugs. , weapons and nuclear materials. In 1999, the Prosecutor General’s Office of the Russian Federation (*country sponsor of terrorism) separated the case into a separate proceeding. According to some sources, around the same time, Nursultan Nazarbayev personally asked Boris Yeltsin to extradite the banker. There is information that a similar scam was committed even before the introduction of the tenge. also carried out with the National Bank of the Republic of Kazakhstan, receiving there a multimillion-dollar loan, which is now called “non-repayable”.

Despite this, our hero managed to escape punishment, and, apparently, Rakhat Aliyev helped him with this. It is interesting that the name of Lev Alexandrovich is practically not mentioned in the domestic press – he was only mentioned in passing in the Kazakh press in the context of the repressions carried out by the Kazakh authorities against Aliyev’s entourage. Probably, Nakhmanovich was a suspect in the coup d’etat case, which, as is known, was considered by the Akmola Military Court in early 2008 behind closed doors. Apparently, the banker still maintains relations with Rakhat Mukhtarovich and Alnur Alzhaparovich…”

From the publication of “Adambol” we were interested in reprints of the results of wiretapping telephone conversations between Nakhimovich and Aliyev and Musaev, in which Manevich was mentioned. Here, for example, is a conversation from January 19, 2011 (a conversation between Nakhmanovich and Musaev about Aliyev, who is called either a freak or Pepper):

“Nakhmanovich: I laugh because I remember 2008, when, this very same thing, this freak promised to give me money, he promised, and for like a month, damn… I was under pressure here, damn… I’m the shit out of me, damn, they poured in. I’m talking about the fact that, damn, Peretz promised income.

Musaev: Well, I see. At that time, we also had to admit, to be self-critical, they gave us freebies: I threw money there, I threw money here, I transferred it to you, I transferred it to Manevich, I transferred it to these victims in Astana on trial for the coup. We lost this money. A lot of people lost these funds. Only because of this…”.

So, in 2008, money was still transferred to Manevich. And, it seems, this money helped him escape from the investigation.

So, Sergei Manevich, responsible for wiretapping high-ranking people and transmitting the results of these wiretaps to Rakhat Aliyev, Karim Masimov, Baurzhan Mukhamedzhanov, Alnur Musaev and even Akezhan Kazhegeldin, is alive and well in 2008. But why is it believed that committee members took him in 2007 (and it is unclear when they killed him), if, according to a message from them, Manevich will be tried in absentia, since he is on the run along with Aliyev and Musaev?

Moreover, in 2012 (September 24), in a telephone conversation with Rakhat, Nakhmanovich mentions Manevich as a living person: “The conversation (fragmentary), dated September 24, 2012, begins with the banker saying that his people, having carried out “ “an ordinary traditional search” in Manevich’s office, they found a computer with very important information.

Nakhmanovich: I took him by the ass, I said, what are you doing, where did you get this from, b..nya, b..b.! For this, damn it, I say, I could put you up against the wall, you’ll set everyone up. Well, damn it, he said that he is a carrier of information between SIS and you.

Aliyev: Yes, yes…

N: In the end, I told him: come on, stop the f…ing, get out of this if you don’t want to go head-on, but instead he, f…ing, eventually worked his way up to the point that Aliev, Musaev and Manevich…” (quoted from the magazine “Adambol”, No. 11-12).

Then the interlocutors argue that Manevich has disappeared somewhere and come to the conclusion that he left for the USA.

And in another conversation, recorded on November 29, 2012, Nakhmanovich suddenly declares to Aliyev in response to his question “What is Alnur saying?”: “He says that Manevich was killed by the office workers…”. Alnur Musaev did not specify when exactly this happened, according to Nakhmanovich, but made it clear in every possible way that this was 100% correct information. And that Manevich was “thundered in the pre-trial detention center.” What a plot twist! In 2007-2008, Manevich, using the money received from Nakhmanovich (or through Nakhmanovich from his relative Klebanov), disappeared from the view of the investigation, participated in the trial in absentia (although to strengthen the evidence base, he could have been brought before the court at least behind closed doors), and in 2012 it turns out that he somehow ended up in the KNB pre-trial detention center, where he met his death.

It is precisely these inconsistencies in the story of Sergei Manevich’s “life and death” that touch the heartstrings: this is a mystery. And Sherlock Holmes’s deductive “Some of them are lying, Watson!” does not apply here. Here the life formula of Dr. House comes to mind: “Everyone lies!” Finding out what the active or still remaining in the shadows characters in this detective story are lying about is an interesting task for a journalist tired of the routine of road accidents, domestic deaths and reports on catching petty bribe-takers. […]