ASTANA, August 27 (RIA Novosti) - Kazakhstan has put a former head of the national Security Committee on a wanted list on abduction charges, the Interior Ministry said Monday.
"Alnur Musayev is suspected of abducting Kimraliyev and Khakhenov, former executives of Nurbank," Bagdad Kozhakhmetov said.
Kazakh authorities earlier accused the former son-in-law and outspoken critic of the country's president of organizing the criminal group and demanded his extradition from Austria.
Rakhat Aliyev, a former ambassador to Austria, was arrested in Vienna in early June after Kazakh authorities accused him of kidnapping two top managers of Nurbank, a bank he controls in Kazakhstan.
Aliyev said the charges against him were trumped up by President Nursultan Nazarbayev, who considered him a political threat.
In early August, an Austrian court rejected a request from Kazakhstan to extradite Aliyev, saying he could not receive a fair trial in Kazakhstan.
Aliyev, the former husband of Nazarbayev's eldest daughter Dariga, was fired as Kazakhstan's ambassador to Austria May 26 after he accused the Kazakh president of totalitarian rule and announced he would run against the leader in the 2012 elections. Weeks later, the president's daughter divorced him.
Nazarbayev, who has ruled the large ex-Soviet state for 17 years, recently signed a constitutional amendment allowing him to be re-elected an unlimited number of times, a rule that will not apply to subsequent leaders.
Despite criticism of his autocratic style of leadership, he remains popular in his home country, which has seen strong oil-driven economic growth in recent years.
Rakhat Aliyev, 44, told Austrian authorities that if he were sent back to Kazakhstan, his life would be in danger. As well as the kidnapping charge, he is accused in Kazakhstan of organizing a group of raiders who illegally seized land and real estate.
