Ex-Kazakh President’s brother Bolat Nazarbayev dies

Bolat Nazarbayev, brother of ex-President of Kazakhstan Nursultan Nazarbayev, has died at the Central Clinical Hospital in Almaty at the age of 70, Kazinform News Agency reports.

The hospital confirmed in a press release that Bolat Nazarbayev had died on November 13, 2023, at 09:51 am, as a result of protracted illness.

Bolat Nazarbayev was born in 1953 in Almaty region.

In different years he was a director of Shamalgan sovkhoz, deputy director of a bakery in Kaskelen. He also was vice president of LLP Inkar Agro, director of BN Invest and founder of Saliqaly Urpaq public foundation.