The son of businessman Alexander Klebanov, Yakov, has become the owner of a luxurious penthouse in Dubai, estimated to be worth approximately $4 million (around 2 billion tenge).
According to the Telegram channel "Access to the Sea", Yakov Klebanov listed this property address when registering a company in France, through which his father purchased another villa on the Côte d'Azur.
Klebanov's penthouse is located in one of the towers of the Sky View Towers residential complex, next to the Burj Khalifa skyscraper.
"On the top floors of the complex, where the 'Sky Bridge' connecting both towers with its huge pool, spa and bars is located, there are only eight duplex penthouses. Yakov owns one of them," the statement reads.
The apartment has five bedrooms, a dedicated living space for staff, several bathrooms, and a huge living room.
Incidentally, in May of this year, the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP) published an investigation called Dubai Unlocked — about property owners in Dubai.
It emerged that over several years, high-ranking Kazakh officials, security officers, top managers of state-owned companies, and their family members snapped up property in Dubai.
"They included members of Nursultan Nazarbayev's family — his two unofficial wives, his nephew Kairat Satybaldy and his wives, the family of his middle and eldest daughters Dinara and Dariga, and other relatives," the statement reads.
Recall that in mid-November, it was reported that businessman Alexander Klebanov bought a villa on the Côte d'Azur in France, which cost twice as much as his company JSC "Central Asian Electric Power Corporation" (CAEPC) earned last year.
In July, it became known that JSC "PavlodarEnergo", whose owners are businessmen Alexander Klebanov and Sergei Kan, transferred assets of the Ekibastuz thermal power plant worth 3.7 billion tenge to the ownership of the Ekibastuz akimat. These include production and administrative buildings, as well as main and auxiliary boiler equipment.
In September, it was reported that CAEPC would not pay dividends for 2023 to its shareholders Alexander Klebanov and Sergei Kan. At the same time, the company became much more profitable than a year earlier.