The grandson of first President of Kazakhstan Nursultan Nazarbayev, Aisultan Nazarbayev, has died in London in the night of August 16, EDNews.net reports citing AKIpress.
The cause of the death is yet to be determined. Preliminarily, he died of cardic failure.
Aisultan Nazarbayev was born on 26 August 1990 in the family of Nazarbayev's eldest daughter Dariga Nazarbayeva and Rakhat Aliyev.
His father Rakhat Aliyev, who had held several posts in the government, moved to Austria and was granted political asylum. Later he was arrested upon Kazakhstan’s request and was imprisoned and died in his cell in 2015.
According to zakon.kz, Aisultan graduated from the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst in the United Kingdom in 2010 and worked for Kazakhstan’s main intelligence department for one year since 2012.
On February 13, 2020 Aisultan allegedly wrote two posts on his Facebook page requesting political asylum in the UK, complaining of pressure against him. On the same day, Kazakhstan’s Minister of Information and Social Development Dauren Abayev dismissed this speculation, saying that Aisultan was "a drug addict.".
