Scammers attempted to seize a Moscow estate belonging to Kairat Boranbayev in the gated Gazprom village. According to information, unknown individuals forged documents and resold the businessman's property while he was under arrest in Kazakhstan on embezzlement charges.
According to the Telegram channel Access to the Sea, the legal proceedings to overturn the sale lasted nearly two years and concluded in Boranbayev's favour. Observers link this not only to the evidence base but also to the possible assistance of his neighbour in the village and business partner, Timur Kulibayev.
Information about the attempted fraud emerged from an audit report of LLC Consultinggaz, owned by Boranbayev. The document mentioned two land plots with real estate properties having a total cadastral value of 157.8 million rubles (over 1 billion tenge).
At that time, the company's balance sheet only listed two major residential assets. One was a mansion in the Moscow region, sold in the spring of 2023 for nearly 1 billion tenge. The second was an estate in Bogorodskoye village, which fully matches the parameters specified in the report.
This property includes two plots totalling 86 ares, a main house of 1,800 sq m, a guest house of 425 sq m, and an unfinished structure of 411 sq m. In 2022, their cadastral value was 148 million rubles (993 million tenge). The market value of the assets in 2023 was estimated at approximately 1 billion rubles (about 5 billion tenge at the exchange rate of the time).
It emerged that the scammers managed to sell the estate in 2023 while Boranbayev was in custody. However, the court declared the transaction invalid just over a year later — a record short period for such disputes.
Experts note that a significant factor was the encumbrance: in 2023, the property served as collateral for the obligations of Kazakhstan's LPG Distribution LLP to a structure of Timur Kulibayev. Incidentally, the Partnership is owned by Boranbayev's brother — Talgat.
Despite the successful resolution of the dispute, Boranbayev himself, according to the audit report, does not plan to live in the estate. Consultinggaz intends to sell it along with other assets, including cars, and use the proceeds to pay off debts to the Emirati company Nexta FZE, also affiliated with the businessman.
Recall that in March 2023, the businessman Kairat Boranbayev, his partner Roman Nakhanov, and the former deputy chairman of the board of QazaqGaz, Taiyr Zhanuzak, were sentenced to 8 years in prison for embezzlement of funds on an especially large scale in the quasi-public sector.
Later, it was reported that Boranbayev voluntarily returned assets worth over 90 billion tenge to state ownership and transferred 30 billion tenge to the Education Infrastructure Support Fund.
In November 2023, Boranbayev was released from the penal colony. In May 2024, the Deputy Chairman of the Agency for Financial Monitoring (AFM), Zhenis Yelemesov, told journalists that, overall, Boranbayev had returned 134.5 billion tenge to the state.