Source: New York Post
She’s no apartment-stealing international fugitive grifter – she’s just a real housewife of New York.
In a revealing interview from her $20 million apartment overlooking Central Park, Maira Nazarbayeva yesterday denied her multi-millionaire ex-husband’s sensational allegations about her – including that she conned him out of their 4,000 square foot apartment and is wanted for a host of crimes by Interpol – and maintained that she and her ex, Bolat Nazarbayev, are still married.
DIVORCE? WHAT DIVORCE? Maira Nazarbayeva says she’s still married to Bolat Nazarbayev, who claims she stole this apartment.
“There’s never been a day when I’ve had a fight with my husband,” Maira, 50, said of Bolat, who’s the brother of Kazakhstan president Nursultan Nazarbayev.
“I consider myself married and in a good relationship with my husband. And I’ve never seen a document related to divorce. I’ve never signed anything nor have I received anything.”
The exotic beauty also denied that Bolat was the one who’s suing her and her son from a previous marriage, Daniyar, for over $20 million in damages. She said when she spoke to Bolat on the phone a few weeks ago, “he was in shock to learn about this lawsuit.”
Bolat Nazarbayev
“He indicated that since he didn’t sign anything and his signature is not on any court documents, that he was surprised to hear that this took place,” she said, speaking through a translator.
Bolat’s lawyer, John Snyder, declined comment, referring a reporter to his lawsuit – which tells a much different story than Maira. It says the pair were “purportedly” married on July 10, 2001 – sources said Bolat suspects she was using an alias and was married to somebody else when they got hitched – and they were divorced in September of 2009. He was also granted an annulment in September of last year, the lawsuit says.
It was a year before the split, in 2008, that Bolat tasked Maira and her son Daniyar with buying some Big Apple real estate. He says he gave them a power of attorney so they could buy an apartment in his name “without the need for Bolat personally to travel to the United States.”
Instead, the suit says, Daniyar bought the apartment in stepdad Bolat and his mom’s name – and his mom then turned around and sold it to Daniyar for a buck.
Maira insisted there was no funny business. She said she never used any aliases and was single when she and Bolat tied the knot, and the palatial apartment was always intended as a crash pad for their kids.
“It was purchased for the use of my children while they were studying in the United States. That was always the intent,” she said.
“Only in the last year and a half was it used by me and youngest son,” 10-year-old Khanbolat, she said.
She also took aim at the suit’s claims that Daniyar, 24, was a high school dropout who’d scammed his way into Columbia. “The story is all made up,” she said.
She said her dashing son is enlisted in the British military, and is still engaged to Nooryana Najwa, the daughter of the Malaysian prime minister. “They are very saddened by the news that is coming out in the press about all these unsubstantiated claims,” she said.
As for the suit’s contentions that she’s wanted in Kazakhstan “for various crimes, including kidnapping, use of threats of physical harm to extract funds from a business associate, and using criminal threats to force another person to transfer real property to the name of a family associate,” they’re nonsense.
“I had lived and worked as a housewife during my relationship in Kazakhstan with my husband,” she said. “There is no factual basis for this information.”
While The Post has seen what appeared to be an official Interpol “wanted” notice for Maira, her spokesman, Ronn Torossian, noted that she’d travelled abroad in recent weeks without incident, and planned to again in coming days. “She’s never been accused of any crime until this,” he said.
Maira’s lawyer, Lubov Stark, said her client would challenge the allegations in court. “My client is a very private person and would lke to keep all of her legal matters private,” she said.
I guess we won’t see this news article in Malaysiakini. Their biased and slanted coverage is so obvious. Only one sided stuff.
BN’s RM13.8 billion 2012 supplementary budget tabled this June in Parliament is another example of BN’s 3Ds of Deficits, Debts and Deceit as compared to PR’s state government’s record of 3S Surplus, Sustainable debt reduction and Straight talking. When this figure is added to the projected RM 45.9 billion projected deficit in the 2012 budget, we would arrive at a total deficit of RM 59.7 billion, the highest in Malaysian history.
This would easily put Malaysia’s deficit as a % of GDP at more than 6% in 2012, which is significantly higher than the initially projected 4.7%, especially if the widely anticipated worldwide economic slowdown hits Malaysia. The fiscal irresponsibility of the BN government is proven by the fact that the additional funds will be spent on the extra RM 1.5 million allocation to BN MPs from this supplementary budget while non-BN MPs including those from Pakatan Rakyat will be given nothing.
The already bloated Prime Minister’s Department has asked for an additional RM112m to spend including RM30m for a National Branding Unit. One wonders why Malaysia needs a Branding Unit when there are already existing Ministries such as the Tourism Ministry and Agencies such as MATRADE which promote Malaysia and Malaysian companies within and outside the country.
Good companies which make good products coupled with good governments which implement good policies are sufficient to increase the brand profile of a country. Just think of what Samsung has done for Korea and what Apple has done for the United States, without the need of a National Branding Unit.
An additional RM360m has been allocated to the Election Commission and yet the EC cannot even do a proper job of cleaning up the electoral roll not to mention implementing some of the proposals of the Parliamentary Select Committee on Electoral Reform.
The strategy of going to the taxpayers to fund more of its irresponsible spending habits is not something new for the BN. It requested for an additional RM 13.2 billion in June 2011 and an additional RM 10.3 billion in March 2012 for the 2011 Budget.
As of Quarter 1 of 2012, government debt stood at RM 470 billion. If we include the expected deficit from the 2012 budget, our government debt will easily increase to beyond RM500b by the end of the 2012. And this does not even include the worrying increase in the contingent liabilities that are not officially on the books.
These contingent liabilities are loans which will be paid by the taxpayer if the companies in question such as MAS have to be bailed out. Estimates of these contingent liabilities at the end of 2011 stand at approximately RM 110 billion. If contingent liabilities are added to official government debt, our debt to GDP ratio would stand at over 65% at the end of 2012, which is well above the statutory limit of 55% debt to GDP ratio.
The last time this country ran a budget surplus was in 1997 when Anwar Ibrahim was still the finance minister. Since 1997, we have experience 15 consecutive years of budget deficits. Our government debt has increased from RM 89 billion to RM 470 billion as at march 2012. Our government debt has increased 5 fold since 1997 while our GDP has only increased by threefold.
In contrast to BN’s dismal financial performance, PR state governments have recorded surplus after surplus every year and even managed to reduce our debts sustainably.
and still after DAP komtar cybertroopers read this article , they only can write lie after lie … kahkahkah
I can smell Anwar at work, tipping off western media with false info to discredit the PM. Such viciousness. A real low life.
Jibby may consider ‘wife swap’?
Everyone said So far Azmin still hold the record.This type of culture only exist in PKR.
Hey! Stop the lies lah!
“Thief” woman don’t look like that picture now, she looks like whisky barrel!
Just look for that picture of woman with her two sons and 1Daughter lah!
If that is not called “fat”, all sumo wrestlers are ballerinas!
You care more about my looks that the alleged slender. I know lah your grandfather was a pig farmer from Sarawak originated from tongkang mainland. Wondering how your looks compare now….like a fat pig riding a Merc bike in Singapork beach?
Integrity my foot!!!!
Mahathir’s UMNO-BN 22 years of dictatorial, tyrannical & oppressive reign of evil regime was widely known and well-documented as the era of excessive opulence and extravagant decadence.
This era of rampant and endemic corruption resulted in the pervasive-evil system whereby government servants comprising of ministers in the cabinet, top and high-ranking Govt. officials and the evasive UMNO warlords and cronies, in the 2mil. civil service Govt. employees, are simultaneously and covertly holding outright positions in the corporate world as directors, in public-listed companies and other related businesses, when they have NO BLOODY business to be involved in, as per their contract in the government service.
The shocking revelation is that all their family members and relatives are appointed as nominees and directors in the aforementioned businesses.
To complicate matters and permeate the problem more complicitly, is the involvement of the royalty and monarchs and sultans in businesses in the corporate world.
The evil business of largesse and patronage unforgivably breeds nothing but contempt and disgust from the Rakyat.
So the logical and rational thing to do when Pakatan Rakyat takes over the helm of governing the country, the first priority is to nationalize all the criminal acts and illegal wrong-doings by the UMNO-BN elites.
I have a feeling, as the song goes. And the feeling is that Maira whatever her name and Rosmah Mansor are going to get along like a house on fire. They even look alike with that funny pulled up look around the eyes and the tight smiles. Soon they will sharing plastic surgeons and handbags. But not clothes for obvious reasons.
How credible is the NY Post to begin with? http://bit.ly/L3dC9p