Serik Akhmetov

Serik Nyghmetuly Akhmetov (Kazakh: Серік Нығметұлы Ахметов, Serik Nyǵmetuly Ahmetov; born 25 June 1958) was a Prime Minister of Kazakhstan from 2012 to 2014. He served as the Minister of Defense from April to October 2014.

Serik Akhmetov
Серік Ахметов
8th Prime Minister of Kazakhstan
In office
24 September 2012 – 2 April 2014
PresidentNursultan Nazarbayev
Preceded byKarim Massimov
Succeeded byKarim Massimov
First Deputy Prime Minister of Kazakhstan
In office
20 January 2012 – 24 September 2012
Prime MinisterKarim Massimov
Preceded byUmirzak Shukeyev
Succeeded byKrymbek Kusherbayev
Minister of Defense
In office
3 April 2014 – 22 October 2014
PresidentNursultan Nazarbayev
Prime MinisterKarim Massimov
Preceded byAdilbek Dzhaksybekov
Succeeded byImangali Tasmagambetov
Minister of Transport and Communications
In office
25 September 2006 – 3 March 2009
PresidentNursultan Nazarbayev
Preceded byAskar Mamin
Succeeded byAbilgazi Kusainov
Akim of Karaganda Region
In office
19 November 2009 – 20 January 2012
Preceded byNurlan Nigmatulin
Succeeded byAbilgazi Kusainov
Personal details
Born (1958-06-25) 25 June 1958
Temirtau, Kazakh SSR, Soviet Union
(now Kazakhstan)
Political partyNur Otan

Akhmetov served for a time as Deputy Governor of Astana before being appointed to the Government of Kazakhstan as Minister of Transportation on 25 September 2006. He has also served as Chairman of the Board of the Atameken National Union of Entrepreneurs and Employers of Kazakhstan since 2005. President Nursultan Nazarbayev appointed Akhmetov as Prime Minister following the resignation of Karim Massimov on 24 September 2012.

Russia

Akhmetov met with Igor Levitin, the Russian Transport Minister on 25 October 2006. Akhmetov proposed building a transport corridor using preexisting roads from southern Kazakhstan through Kazan and Orenburg to St. Petersburg. Minister Levitin said the Russian Government would consider the proposal, but that it wanted the corridor to go through Chelyabinsk. They discussed the "transit of planes from Asia to Europe" and transportation through the Caspian Sea. Levitin plans on making a working trip to Aqtau to further discuss sea transportation.[1] On 9 November Akhmetov and Levitin met in Aqtau, signing an agreement creating a train and ferry link between Aqtau and Makhachkala ports. The first ferry will carry 52 freight cars of grain and oil products on 10 November.[2]

China

He traveled with Deputy Prime Minister Karim Masimov, Finance Minister Natalya Korzhova, and Energy and Mineral Resources Minister Baktykozha Izmukhambetov to Beijing, China from 16–17 November 2006 to boost bilateral relations.[3]

Prison

Akhemetov was convicted of corruption and given a ten-year prison sentence in December 2015; he was released from prison after two years, on September 21, 2017.[4]

2015, for the false Internet post about Akhmetov's death, the notorious Kazakhstani blogger, a political critic of the government of Zhandos Bayshemirov, was detained. Many independent human rights and freedom of speech organizations have noted that the harassment of a blogger does not meet democratic standards.

Personal characteristics

He is fluent in English, Russian and Kazakh. He is married and has 2 children.[5]

References
  1. Kazakhstan wants to build road from south to St Petersburg. ExKz
  2. New Kazakh-Russian Transport Route Opened RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty
  3. China, Kazakhstan strengthen ties Kazinform
  4. "Kazakhstan's Former Prime Minister Released From Prison Early". RadioFreeEurope RadioLiberty. September 21, 2017. Retrieved September 21, 2017.
  5. onlinezakon.kz
Political offices
Preceded by
Karim Massimov		 Prime Minister of Kazakhstan
2012–2014		 Succeeded by
Karim Massimov
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