Rakhat Aliyev

Rakhat Mukhtaruly Aliyev (Kazakh: Рахат Мұхтарұлы Әлиев; 10 December 1962 – 24 February 2015) was a senior official of the government of Kazakhstan. He died in an Austrian prison awaiting trial on charges of murder. His trial was planned to start in Vienna in first half of year 2015.^[2] He was chief of Kazakhstan's tax police, deputy chief of the KNB state security service (Kazakhstan's successor to the Soviet KGB), ambassador to Austria, and first vice foreign minister.

Rakhat Aliyev
Aliyev in April 2007
Kazakhstan Ambassador to Austria, Macedonia, Serbia, Slovenia
In office 21 June 2002 – July 2005
Kazakhstan Ambassador to Austria
In office 9 February 2007 – 26 May 2007
Personal details
Born	Rakhat Mukhtaruly Aliyev Рахат Мұхтарұлы Әлиев (1962-12-10)10 December 1962 Alma-Ata, Kazakh SSR, USSR[1]
Died	24 February 2015(2015-02-24) (aged 52) Vienna, Austria
Cause of death	hanging
Nationality	Kazakhstan
Spouse(s)	Dariga Nazarbayeva (d. 2007) Elnara Shorazova (m. 2007)
Children	three children (with Nazarbayeva)[1] Nurali Rakhatovich (b. 1985) Aisultan Rakhatovich (b. 1990) Venera Rakhatovna (b. 2000)
Education	law degree, 1997; Ph.D economics, 2005
Occupation	diplomat, politician, businessman
Known for	arrests for murder, kidnapping, money laundering