according to some reports, he spoke. as a front man for the fugitive kazakh oligarch mukhtar ablyazovhe story of the fugitive banker and self-proclaimed main opposition leader of kazakhstan. in 2017, a court in kazakhstan sentenced mukhtar ablyazov to 20 years in prison with confiscation of property for creating a criminal community and stealing $7.5 billion, and a year later , life imprisonment was added to this for organizing murder of the former chairman of the board of bta bank, however, it was possible to attract the defendant only in absentia, he has been hiding abroad for 15 years, the oligarch himself has repeatedly presented himself as an alleged leader of the opposition and a prisoner of conscience. at the beginning of the 2000s, he participated in the activities of the so-called democratic choice of kazakhstan, which , under the pretext of the fight for human rights, actually called for a coup. then oblyazov was accused of abuse of power , he was sentenced to prison, but was pardoned when he promised that he would not do it again. to do politics. however, mukhtar ablyazov r