Mayra Nazarbayev released

According to several credible sources, her surprising and miraculous release was due to the direct and personal involvement by the Malaysian Prime Minister: during his Hadj to Mecca over this summer, which he made in the company Ms. Nazarbayeva’s son and his future son-in-law Daniyar.

Early in September, Mayra Nazarbayev, the notorious Kazakhstani fugitive, ex-wife of the Kazakhstan’s President’s brother, and a would-be mother-in-law to Malaysian Prime Minister’s daughter, was released from prison in Dubai, flew to New York and had a court date there on September 4.

 

According to several credible sources, her surprising and miraculous release was due to the direct and personal involvement by the Malaysian Prime Minister: during his Hadj to Mecca over this summer, which he made in the company Ms. Nazarbayeva’s son and his future son-in-law Daniyar, Mr. Najib had extensive meetings with officials from the United Arab Emirates and Kazakhstan to convince them to let the detainee go. Within days after the Prime Minister’s hadj, Ms. Nazarbayeva was, indeed, released, and allowed to proceed to her place of residence, New York.

 

Following her salvation due to the influence of her powerful future relative, Ms. Nazarbayeva has been hard at work reinventing herself as an opposition figure: she has reportedly attempted to contact several leading Kazakhstani opposition leaders in exile and, in the affidavit she has filed with the New York court, has characterized Kazakhstan’s political system as lawless and attacked the Kazakhstani President and his brother, her former husband – this after being a member of the President’s clan for many years. Herself a wanted fugitive for financial and outright criminal shenanigans, Ms. Nazarbayeva is now decrying Kazakhtan’s “lack of an independent judiciary and due process” and its “widespread corruption.”   

 

It looks like a substantial portion of the Prime Minister’s time and energy is devoted to a family matter involving a fugitive from law – at the expense of all Malaysians.