Information has appeared in the search database of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs regarding the search for Meder Kapenov, who is the younger brother of the son-in-law of the former chairman of the KNB, Karim Masimov, Azamat Kapenov.
According to the Telegram channel "Access to the Sea", the department did not disclose the criminal case or the article under which Meder Kapenov is being sought. 
It is noted that at the beginning of the year, the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs also put his brother Azamat Kapenov on the wanted list, and in August, the Kazakh Anti-Corruption Service placed Masimov's son-in-law on an international wanted list.
It has become known that Meder Kapenov is the director and founder of the logistics companies Transcontainer Eurasia LLP and Eurotrans Active LLP. In Russia, he owns the company Rubius, which specialises in real estate management. It is also noted that in 2022, Meder Kapenov, holding a Kazakh passport, acquired citizenship of Kyrgyzstan.
In Moscow, Azamat Kapenov and his wife Tamila Masimova, who is the daughter of Karim Masimov, owned mansions worth over 6 billion tenge. Azamat now owns several more properties in Moscow and the Moscow region. Meder Kapenov owns a flat with an area of 234 m² in central Moscow.
Journalists believe that Meder is being sought as part of his brother's criminal case, who left Russia in the summer of 2023 and is allegedly hiding in the United Arab Emirates. Incidentally, in Russia and Kazakhstan, Azamat Kapenov is accused under the article "Fraud", but the details of the case are still unknown.
"Most likely, this case is related to the statements of the former owner of the Asia-Avto plant, a major partner of the Russian AvtoVAZ in Kazakhstan, Anatoly Balushkin, who accused the Masimov family and Kapenov personally of a hostile takeover of his enterprise. Several more similar statements were then filed against Kapenov. <...> This version is supported by the fact that the investigation of the case in Kazakhstan is being handled by the Anti-Corruption Agency for the East Kazakhstan region, where Balushkin's main asset was located.", the message states.
Furthermore, journalists do not rule out that the case against the Kapenovs could have been initiated by Azamat's former partners from the Russian company "Open Technologies".
"Kapenov closely cooperated with this firm, which began to grow rapidly after the introduction of sanctions against the Russian Federation on the supply of high-tech products and started receiving contracts in the field of information security from state contractors, including those operating in the defence sector.", the message states.
Recall that in August it was reported that the search for Azamat Kapenov could be linked to the case of Bipek Avto Kazakhstan JSC. Allegedly, earlier the company's founder, Anatoly Balushkin, had named Karim Masimov as one of the beneficiaries of the campaign to destroy his business, and Kapenov as the negotiator.
Later it became known that a trial in absentia had begun in Ust-Kamenogorsk regarding Anatoly Balushkin. It was reported that in 2020, the authorities terminated the contract with the company and demanded the return of government funds amounting to 174 billion tenge. Allegedly, its representatives failed to fulfil obligations for the industrial assembly of cars. The company received tax breaks worth this amount over 10 years.
In December 2022, one of the top managers of "Asia-Bipek AVTO" was detained in Prague, but it was not reported who exactly, only reminding that on 12 August 2021, Balushkin was put on the wanted list, and a court sanctioned his arrest in absentia under Article 190, Part 4 of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Kazakhstan - fraud.
Later, private bailiffs of the East Kazakhstan region put up for auction the building complex of the car assembly plant in Ust-Kamenogorsk, which Anatoly Balushkin built in the early 2000s. A railway access road had been laid to it.
In 2023, it became known that the AFM (Agency for Financial Monitoring) was conducting a pre-trial investigation against the chairman of the board of directors of "Asia-Bipek AVTO", Anatoly Balushkin, the general director of "Asia AVTO JSC", Erik Sagymbaev, and a number of top managers of the group of companies. It was reported then that they were accused of embezzling over 230 billion tenge.