Germany: call on to confiscate Nazarbayev property in Baden-Baden

On the eve of the publication of the investigation of Deutsche Welle on the elite real estate in Baden-Baden, the Family of the Ex-President of Kazakhstan Nursultan Nazarbayeva Deputy of the Landtag federal Land Baden-Württemberg from the Social Democratic Party (SDPG) of Germany Jonas Weber appealed to the Prime Minister of this Earth Winfried Krotchman.

“I urge you and your land government to take all possible measures – right up to confiscation – so that Baden-Württemberg does not receive a refuge for autocrats and their property. In my opinion, it, among other things, and our duty to democratic forces. Motherland, “wrote Jonas Weber. The text of this letter has at the disposal of Deutsche Welle.

According to DW, Weber’s appeal is agreed with colleagues in the SDPG fraction, which is opposition to the land government as part of the “green” and Christian Democrats.

In the investigation of Deutsche Welle, it is said that the son-in-law and middle daughter of the ex-president of Kazakhstan Nursultan Nazarbayev – Dinara and Timur Kulibayev, as well as the company’s associated firms have invested more than one hundred million euros in luxury real estate in Baden-Baden and in the vicinity of this resort town. In the land of Baden-Württemberg in the south of Germany. Investments were carried out for 10 years, mainly during the stay of Nursultan Nazarbayev as president of Kazakhstan.

The politician believes that the Baden-Württemberg government, as he put it, “there can not sit back.” “The inaction in the situation with the Nazarbayev family should not be an invitation to other autocrats, this situation requires decisive actions from us,” the Landtag deputy speaks to the land government.

The question of the possible confiscation of the Nazarbayev family is especially relevant, according to German politics, relative to the historic Castle-hotel Bieler, near Baden-Baden. This hotel is a monument of national importance, at one time he was a favorite holiday destination Chancellor Conrad Adenauer. Land legislation Baden-Württemberg provides for the possibility of confiscation of architectural monuments if they are threatened with destruction due to the inaction of owners. The owners of the Timur Kulibaev hotel and his wife, Daughter Nazarbayev Dinar, do not invest in the modernization of the object, despite the fact that more than 20 million euros were spent on his purchase. An iconic tourist object closed for more than 10 years.