Two high-ranking Kazakh security officials arrested.
Kazakhstan’s National Security Committee has arrested two high-ranking security officials as part of an ongoing investigation into a case of attempted usurpation of power and abuse of office.
Kazakhstan’s National Security Committee has arrested two former high-ranking security officials as part of an ongoing investigation into an attempted usurpation of power and abuse of office.
Last week, Karim Massimov, the former head of Kazakhstan’s National Security Committee, was arrested on charges of treason.
Anwar Sadeghlov and the “Irgazin government”, former deputies of the chairman of the National Security Committee of Kazakhstan, were also arrested in connection with the case.
Hundreds of people rallied in the cities of Aktau and Zhanaozin in Kazakhstan’s Mangistao province on January 14 to protest rising gas prices.
Opposing the issue, they called on Kazakh authorities to reduce car fuel prices, which have risen to 120 “tenge” (Kazakh currency) per liter since the beginning of the new year.
Although the Kazakh government agreed to the protesters’ request, some cities in the country became the target of clashes, with terrorist and criminal groups seizing the opportunity and destroying public places and seizing some government buildings.
Kazakhstan’s government was dissolved and some officials were arrested following protests in two major cities.
