German Police Open Case Against Fugitive Ex-Prosecutor Duissenov

German police have opened a criminal case against former Kazakh prosecutor Maksat Duissenov, who is accused of slander and making death threats, Orda.kz reports.

The complaint was filed by Assel Temirova, a member of the international anti-corruption organization Transparency International. According to Temirova, Kazakh journalists sent her a link to a video by Duissenov, after which she immediately handed the materials over to police.

I testified for three hours. A criminal case was registered over slander and death threats. Duissenov was also banned from contacting me that same day,Temirova wrote on Facebook.

She pointed to what she called a paradox in the situation. Duissenov is seeking political asylum in Germany, claiming he faces threats in Kazakhstan, while publicly threatening another person on camera.

He sits in Germany and threatens people on camera — smiling, mocking, as if he were still in his old office. The only thing missing is the uniform,Temirova added.

She also said that in the video, Duissenov himself confirmed that his friends had “insisted on initiating something” against her. Temirova called on Kazakh civil society and the NGO Coalition to appeal to Germany’s Federal Office for Migration and Refugees, or BAMF.

Maksat Duissenov is the former head of Kazakhstan’s Transport Prosecutor’s Office and one of the closest associates of former Prosecutor General Kairat Kozhamzharov. He worked in law enforcement for more than 20 years. Duissenov’s career was closely tied to Kozhamzharov. Under him, he held key positions in the financial police before later moving to the prosecutor’s office.

Duissenov spoke to the media about arrests in the Khorgos case, one of the financial police’s most high-profile investigations. In 2012, he was removed as head of Almaty’s financial police department after one of his subordinates was caught taking a $30,000 bribe. After Kozhamzharov left the Senate in 2019, Duissenov also left his post.

In Kazakhstan, Duissenov is accused of receiving a $22 million bribe, laundering criminal proceeds, and fraud. After a torture case was opened against his former colleagues, he left the country. Interpol detained him in Germany at Kazakhstan’s request, but a German court refused to extradite him. The court found that the prosecution could be politically motivated. Duissenov is now free and seeking refugee status.

His former superior, Kairat Kozhamzharov, is also under investigation. The Prosecutor General’s Office is investigating a case involving abuse of power and laundering criminal proceeds.

Other members of Kozhamzharov’s team have also come under investigation. Talgat Tatubayev, special prosecutor Olesya Keksel, and Bauyrzhan Muzhikov are involved in a torture case connected to the Khorgos investigation. Another figure from Kozhamzharov’s circle, Talgat Makhatov, described as the “finpol wallet,” received his third prison sentence last year.

Original author: Ruslan Loginov

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