President of Kazakhstan Kasym-Zhomart Tokayev in the first interview after January events stated that the militants who arranged unrest arrived in the country under the guise of workers.
“they led attacks on administrative buildings, they were interested in criminal cases, dossier on law enforcement officers, it was a carefully planned action, inherently terrorist, with the involvement of militants from abroad. You probably noticed that militants organized the seizure of the airport, now the investigation shows that the airport was captured in order to pass through the citizens who came from one Central Asian city. These were the prepared militants who naturally flew under the guise of migrant workers, they conducted them through border racks, launched them The city and began to lead the operation, “said Tokaev.