Bakhyt Ibrahim's Death: Case Closed, Police Comment

Police have completed their investigation into the suicide of Bakhyt Ibrahim, a businessman and former major shareholder of Qazaq Banki, Orda.kz reports.

The Almaly District Police Department conducted the investigation under the article “Driving to Suicide."

We conducted the relevant expert examinations, and based on the results of a set of investigative measures, the criminal case was terminated on the basis of paragraph 2 of part 1 of article 35 of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Kazakhstan (absence of corpus delicti - Ed.). This decision was approved by the Prosecutor's Office of the Almaly district of Almaty, the Almaty PD commented. 

Bakhyt Ibrahim was married to the eldest daughter of the former Akim of Almaty Bakytzhan Sagintayev. 

The businessman was detained in 2018 in Germany at the request of Kazakh law enforcement.

In 2020, he was sentenced to seven years for embezzling 144 billion tenge from RBK Bank.

The criminal case in which Ibrahim was involved included 46 counts, 700 volumes, and 40 defendants.

The indictment was over 3,600 pages long. Amid the investigation, there were mysterious deaths: three people involved in the case died during the investigation, and another died during the court hearings.

Ibrahim was released in 2023, and his time in pretrial detention was counted toward his sentence.

In March 2024, his body was found in a rented apartment in Almaty.

Before his death, he called his nephew and said that he was going to commit suicide because of a new investigation launched against him. Presumably, it was related to Qazaq Banki's financial issues.

Original Author: Zhadra Zhulmukhametova