"On Thursday, the National Security
Committee, Kazakhstan’s most powerful security agency, said that it suspected
Karim Masimov, its former chief who was dismissed during the turmoil last
week, of attempting to stage a coup. Mr. Masimov and two of his deputies have
been arrested.
Mr. Masimov was one of the most
powerful allies of the former president, Nursultan Nazarbayev, according to Mr.
Alzhanov. Mr. Nazarbayev ruled Kazakhstan from 1990 to 2019, when Mr. Tokayev, his handpicked replacement, took
over. Mr. Tokayev has since made comments implying that Mr. Nazarbayev was
responsible for the cronyism and corruption that many analysts feel contributed
to the unrest.
Many in Kazakhstan, however, doubt
that Mr. Masimov could have orchestrated the unrest on his own.
“Masimov with two of his deputies
could never organize a coup to push Tokayev out of power without Nazarbayev and
his family,” Baltash Tursumbayev, a former Kazakh deputy prime minister, told
TV Rain, an independent Russian television station.
Mr. Nazarbayev has not appeared in
public since the crisis began, fueling speculation about his whereabouts and
the fate of his family members, who are among the richest people in Kazakhstan.
He was dismissed last week from his post as chairman of the government’s
Security Council.
On Monday, in a speech to senior government
officials and members of Parliament, Mr. Tokayev vowed to implement reforms in
the country that would address wide income inequality and tackle the corrupt
practices that analysts say have enriched the country’s elite, and which
experts believe have contributed to the unrest."
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