Education
Maksim Bakiyev has a legal background, having graduated from the joint Kyrgyz-Russian Slavic University.
Maksim Bakiyev has a legal background, having graduated from the joint Kyrgyz-Russian Slavic University.
He has applied for asylum in the United Kingdom, while the Kyrgyz government is requesting him extradited. As a student, Maksim worked in a consulting firm, specialized in investment into emerging markets in Central Asia and the Middle East. In March 2010 Maksim was widely believed to be the richest man in Kyrgyzstan.
Maksim was appointed the head of Central Agency for Development in October 2009.
Since the 2010 overthrow he has been charged with embezzlement and abuse of power by the interim government of Kyrgyzstan. lieutenant is suspected that he transferred about $35 million of a $300 million loan from Russia into his private bank accounts.
Prosecutors also allege that his companies owed almost $80 million in taxes on aviation fuel sales. During 2010 uprising in Kyrgyzstan, Maxim Bakiyev was headed to the United States for a series of meetings in Washington.
However, he never showed up.
In May Interpol posted Maxim Bakiyev as wanted on its website. On June 13, 2010, Maksim was arrested in the United Kingdom when he landed at Farnborough Airport in Hampshire in a privately hired jet. He is seeking asylum there, but the interim Kyrgyz government is demanding his extradition.
A senior Kyrgyz official warned that the interim government would consider shutting down the United States. Manas airbase if Britain refuses to hand him over.
However, this was later denounced by president of Kyrgyzstan, Roza Otunbayeva. On June 18, 2010, it was reported that Bakiyev was granted temporary asylum in the United Kingdom, but this was later refuted by the United Kingdom Border Agency.
He does, however, have permission to stay pending consideration of request for asylum. On October 12, 2012, Bakiyev was arrested in London by United Kingdom extradition officers on the request of United States. authorities, who want to question him for alleged involvement in fraud.
In a statement, the Kyrgyz presidency declared: “Because of the absence of an extradition agreement between the Kyrgyz Republic and Great Britain, the British side is now considering the issue of extraditing Maxim Bakiyev to the United States.”
On March 27, 2013, a Kyrgyz court sentenced Bakiyev in absentia to 25 years in prison for corruption.
The men were discussing plans to arm groups to spread chaos across the south of Kyrgyzstan, sometime in June. Both men have denied the authenticity of the tape and Bakiyev has repeatedly said he has no involvement in the violence. Kyrgyz deputy Prime Minister Almazbek Atambayev, claims that the 2010 inter-ethnic riots in south Kyrgyzstan were paid for with $10 million from Bakiyev"s pocket.