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Al Jazeera (21 February 2022)

Kazakhstan has detained a former defence minister after prosecutors launched a probe against him for failing to fulfil his duties during last month’s violent unrest that killed 225 people, according to a statement by the prosecutor general’s office.

Murat Bektanov, who was sacked by President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev last month, faces four to eight years in prison if convicted.

“On February 19, the General Prosecutor’s Office launched a pre-trial investigation against the former Minister of Defense Bektanov Murat Karibayevich on the fact of inaction in his service under Article 452 of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Kazakhstan. On February 20, Bektanov was detained and placed in a temporary detention centre on suspicion of committing this crime,” the prosecutor general’s office said on Monday, using the Russian order of the full name including the father’s name at the end.

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