NUR-SULTAN: The influential son-in-law of Kazakhstan's ex-president resigned as head of the leading business lobby on Monday not long after public anger at perceived corruption in the Central Asian country boiled into a deadly crisis.
"Dear colleagues! From today, I decided to resign as the elected Chairman of the Presidium of the National Chamber of Entrepreneurs 'Atameken'," Kulibayev said in the statement. Kulibayev, widely viewed as one of the country's richest businessmen, controls the country's largest commercial bank, Halyk.