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Document #1230953
RFE/RL – Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (Author)
By RFE/RL's Kazakh Service'
November 19, 2014
Kazakh former Prime Minister Serik Akhmetov has been placed under house arrest on corruption charges.
Kazakhstan's State Anti-Corruption Agency said on November 19 that Akhmetov's house arrest is in connection with investigations launched against several senior officials in the central Qaraghandy region.
No more details were made public.
Akhmetov, 56, a native of Qaraghandy region, served as prime minister between September 2012 and April 2014.
In April he was appointed defense minister but resigned last month. Akhmetov's resignation was officially presented as "his own decision."
His resignation came weeks after investigators detained the governor of the Qaraghandy region, Bauyrzhan Abdishev, the mayor of the city of Qaraghandy, Meiram Smagulov, and several other local officials on corruption charges.
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