Where is and what does the Kazakh fugitive Khamitzhan DIKHAEV who holds hundreds of million tenge debts?
Dikhaev left the country six years ago. The court found him guilty of a particularly large-scale fraud, and the Kostanay Regional Department of Economic Investigations puts him on the international wanted list. It searches him for a long time, but cannot find. Or does not want?
Well, we are ready to inform the Prosecutor General and other interested persons and structures: we know where Dikhaev is. But about this later.
His business is well known in Kazakhstan. In 2008 he was convicted for pseudo-business activities. Then it was a story about the theft of 252 million tenge by the Dikhaev firm Kulan Ltd on the project of the vegetable storage modernization, and then - about the scam that made Dikhaev famous in the whole world. It’s about a life-threatening Ferrous Wheel. Many are still remembering the video of the crazy booths’ rotations at the very top.
By the way, for the wheel, which turned out to be a Chinese fake, 334 million tenge was paid from the budget meanwhile the manufacturer price was... 80 million tenge. Good business, isn’t it?
Khamitzhan DIKHAEV in the jail
If on the very first of his criminal cases,
Khamitzhan Dikhaev was sentenced and spent time in the jail, then as situation starting to heat up, he quickly fled abroad.
Zira DIKHAEVA, Khamitzhan’s wife was held responsible for her husband’s excesses: the court found her to be an accomplice and sentenced her to a five-year sentence. The lawyer of the Dikhaev’s company "Alatau Gorstoy" Alexander GAVRILCHIK also put behind bars. We will not moralize. This is a simple fact: the person has caused real damage to Kazakhstan and has fled, putting under the threat the closest people.
However, the absence of a suspect in the country is not grounds termination of the criminal case. There is a fairly effective tool - international wanted list, there is a specialized entity Interpol. But Dikhaev is elusive! Did he go underground? Did he change his appearance or even his gender? No, he didn’t. The Internet tells all over the world about the new adventures of the hero of our publications.
It says that Mr Dikhaev is quite openly living in Georgia. He willingly gives interviews, describing himself as a political refugee (presumably implying that installing crazy rides, imaginary renovations of vegetable stores and fraud on hundreds of millions of tenge are purely political actions). Seems, he doesn’t care on the international search, as well as the publications of foreign media, in which the actions of Dikhaev are characterized as "an Eastern tale of extortions”.
For example, on YouTube you can find Dikhaev’s reflections on legal lawlessness in Kazakhstan, "100% corrupt judges" and somehow, oddly enough, about Navalny. On the resource pln-pskov.ru there is an article about the alleged involvement of Khamitzhan Dikhaev in corporate blackmail. The site techbullion.com reports that our fugitive "cannot leave Georgia due to huge personal debts", but acts as a "defender" of a wide range of victims of alleged fraudsters. There are already many articles about our antihero.
In short, the information on resources is as follows: supposedly Dikhaev and a group of associates are attacking fast-growing cryptocurrency companies, threatening them with reputation damage. The approach seems correct, because the reputation is the basis of their business. As a result, old customers begin to leave maligned platform, and new ones - to avoid it.
How does corporate blackmail work? First, a mass mailing list of accusations against the heads of the victim company is launched, then groups of "dissatisfied" are formed in social networks, which start bombing with negative information. Well, when the victim is tired of fighting off allegations and black publicity, Dikhaev’s team comes up with an offer that is difficult to refuse: to pay back. In fact, there is nothing new here, all these actions copy the tactics of the American mafia in the 1930s. It’s just that their followers have moved on to a new level of technology.
The Internet claims that the victim of the new Dikhaev "gang" is the Dubai-based company Meta Force lead by Vladimir OKHOTNIKOV. It was a request to this company to confirm or deny the fact of blackmail and participation of Khamitzhan Dikhaev, and an official response from the head of the media content department Sabina PEDRAZZOLI was:
- Meta Force employees and clients do receive social media messages signed by Khamitzhan Dikhaev. The messages contain inaccurate facts designed to compromise the company’s executives. We know that this person is looking for people who are unhappy with the collaboration with Meta Force. We confirm that we have received payment claims through third parties. First it was one million dollars, then it was raised to five million dollars. Meta Force states that under no circumstances will it pay Mr Dihaev or his representatives. The company never negotiated with Mr Dikhaev, it’s against our corporate rules. We affirm our willingness to defend our reputation through the courts and any legal means.
That's it.
However, it is not so important what Khamitzhan Dikhaev does abroad (let the law enforcement agencies of foreign countries take care of it). More importantly, an active life fugitive is oddly absent from the sight of Kazakhstan security forces.
The APB on the wanted Dikhaev asks to report his whereabouts. But now even this is redundant, after all, he himself constantly gives up, openly informing about his location. Well, in accordance with Kazakhstan’s laws, we ask those responsible to consider our publication an official request, in which we demand to clarify the situation with regard to the search for a fugitive from justice.
Meanwhile, not so long ago, the Kazakh Prosecutor General’s Office informed of its success in the search for criminals who have been declared an international wanted. At the request of the Georgian Prosecutor General’s Office, it is reported that Kazakhstan has extradited a criminal guilty of causing grievous bodily harm. Does it look like our Georgian colleagues have an extradition debt now?
So, make them an official request. It’s easy.
