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Tag archive for ‘Zhaksylyk Doskaliev’
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The Charges Pile Up
Central Asia Online is reporting that Doskaliyev is facing two more charges: taking bribes and unduly getting a research institute transfered to his Ministry. I have also heard from people here that they are looking into charges that he got money out of . purchases of printers for the Ministry–charging the Ministry more than the […]
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Doskaliev Summary
RFE/RL has a pretty good timeline of events surrounding the investigation, stroke, revelation, and now arrest and replacement of Zhaksylyk Doskaliev former Minister of Health. Especially useful since in my coverage I occasionally got things confused or reported on rumors and allegations: Dosqaliev was hospitalized on September 27 with an apparent stroke after being interrogated […]
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Doskaliev Adds Perjury to Accusations of Corruption
Financial Police 1 – Doskaliev 0. Today the Deputy Head of the National Research and Medical Center of Astana, where the Minister of Health was supposedly recovering from a stroke, admitted that he had perjured himself when he said Zhaksylyk Doskaliev was in a coma. According to Murat Zhumabay, under questioning by the Financial Police, […]
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Doctor Invites Journalists to See Doskaliev
KTK is reporting that according to his doctors, after 6 days of being on a ventilator, the Minister of Health is breathing without help [RU]. Journalists were also invited into the hospital room. The link has a video and a transcript of that video. What is new in this video is that the deputy director […]
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Minister of Health Conscious
Still very little news about the arrest of the Minister of Health. Just the one article I could find, in Russian. I appear to be scooping all the English language news sources on this: Zhaksylyk Doskaliev regains consciousness [RU]. The Financial Police still aren’t discussing the case so as not to impede the investigation, apparently. […]
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Minister of Health Held for Questioning, Not Arrested
It seems I have been misreporting the affair surrounding Zhaksylyk Doskaliev. The Financial Police initially came to hold him for questioning, not to arrest him. As I reported yesterday, as of yet the Astana Court sees no grounds to issue an arrest warrant for the Minister of Health, and no has tried to arrest him […]
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Minister of Health Hospitalized
Still not much news about the arrest of Minister of Health Hospitalized KTK in Kazakhstan, by the Agency for the Fight Against Corruption and Financial Crimes. KTK.kz has a newsbroad cast up on their site however: Minister of Health Hospitalized (KTK) The video is in Russian but in short it says that they have confirmed […]
