Background
Shayakhmetov was born in the village of Kaganovich in Zhambyl District, Almaty Province.
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He graduated from the Kazakh Polytechnic Institute named for V. I. Lenin (now Kazakh National Technical University) in 1978.
Career
Shayakhmetov began his intelligence career in the Komitet Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnosti (Committee for State Security)"s Jezkazgan branch in 1982. He was promoted from National Security Council deputy chairman to full chairman in December 2009 as a replacement for Amangeldy Shabdarbayev, who was removed from his post for unclear reasons. Shayakhmetov himself was removed from his post in August 2010 in the aftermath of the arrest of Prosecutor-General" General’ s Office official Murat Musabekov, who was fingered as allegedly plotting a coup in an anonymous letter allegedly circulated by National Security Council officers.
He was replaced by Nursultan Nazarbaev loyalist and political heavyweight Nurtai Abykayev.
