Ex-adviser to Nazarbayev accused Kazakhstan’s special services of betrayal

The National Security Committee of Kazakhstan (KNB) hid information from the authorities about the “training camps of militants” existing in the country, said former information minister and former adviser to the country’s first president, Nursultan Nazarbayev, Yermukhamet Yertysbayev.

Speaking on the air of one of the channels of the national television news agency “Khabar”, Yertysbayev called the KNB’s actions “a national betrayal and conspiracy.” According to him, the committee “periodically neutralized this or that group,” but was silent about “the numerous training camps set up in the mountains.” “This is a terrible crime against the state,” Yertysbayev added.

He also noted that the riots that took place in Kazakhstan would have been impossible without “traitors in the highest echelons of power” and especially in law enforcement agencies. According to the ex-minister, the purpose of the conspirators was to remove President Tokayev from power.

Let us remind you that earlier Tokayev accused the country’s special services of “oversleeping” the underground preparation of terrorist attacks, and said that “debriefing is ahead” in connection with the actions of law enforcement agencies and the army.

Protests in Kazakhstan began after the New Year over the rise in the price of liquefied gas. The government resigned, while the CSTO Collective Security Council decided to send a collective peacekeeping force to Kazakhstan at the request of the president of the republic.

Law enforcement officials of Kazakhstan have detained 3,811 people in connection with the riots, the Kazakh Tengrinews agency reported on the Telegram channel data from the Ministry of Internal Affairs. According to the ministry, 26 participants in the riots were eliminated, another 26 people were injured.