DUSHANBE, June 4, Asia-Plus – Rakhat Aliyev, Kazakh president’s son-in-law also former Kazakhstan’s Ambassador to Austria, has been released on bail, Russia’s RIA Novosti cited Gerhard Jarosch, a spokesman for the Austrian public prosecutor’s office, as saying.
Jarosch said that Aliyev had been released on 1 million euros. But he gave a written undertaking not to leave a place and must remain in Austria, Jarosch told RIA Novosti by telephone.
Aliyev, who is wanted in Kazakhstan in connection with an alleged abduction, was arrested on June 1.
In the meantime, Radio Liberty said that in an appeal to the Austrian government not to extradite him, Rakhat Aliyev told the Austrian magazine “Profil,” in an article to be published on June 4 that his life and the lives of his family are endangered back in Kazakhstan.
Aliyev rejects the charges against him and blames them on presidential ambitions that he says he confided in President Nursultan Nazarbayev earlier this year.
