Grandson of former Kazakhstan president is found dead in London at 29

The golden boy of Kazakhstan - once groomed as a future leader - has been found dead in London aged 29 after claiming he had information about corruption, reports claim.The golden boy of Kazakhstan -

once groomed as a future leader - has been found dead in London aged 29 after claiming he had information about corruption, reports claim.

Aisultan Nazarbayev - who was serenaded at his wedding by Kanye West - had been the favourite grandson of longtime ex-president Nursultan Nazarbayev.

The young ex-spy had also attended the Sandhurst royal military academy, apparently on the recommendation of Prince Andrew.

But the young man has died in exile months after claiming he had information about high-level corruption between Kazakhstan and Russia, making accusations about the “greed and gluttony” of his own family.

His cause of death is suspected to be heart failure, according to reports.The Telegraph reported he died ten days after returning to London from Kazakhstan, where he had spent the UK coronavirus lockdown.

The newspaper reported Aisultan was last year handed a suspended prison sentence after biting a police officer on the arm after he was Tasered four times at a stranger’s West End apartment.

Michael Wolkind QC reportedly said the young man's behaviour was fuelled by mental health difficulties and cocaine.

Two days before the incident he was said to have threatened to take his own life.

"The cause of death is being established. Heart failure is said to be the preliminary cause. Other details are not disclosed yet," reported Tengrinews.kz.

A former military spy for Kazakhstan, Aisultan said earlier this year he had applied for political asylum in London after complaining of being harassed by his powerful mother.

Aisultan’s mother, former speaker of the Kazakh parliament, Dariga Nazarbayeva, is the ex-president's eldest daughter, and a major political figure in his homeland.

She said: “My family is devastated at the loss of our beloved Aisultan and we ask for privacy at this very difficult time.”

In an extraordinary life in the gilded cage of the oil-rich central Asian state, Aisultan had earlier been a member of Chelsea’s football youth academy.The move was rumoured to have been arranged by club owner Roman Abramovich at the request of Vladimir Putin.

The young 'prince' then went to Portsmouth but never made the grade.

Kanye was paid £2million to perform at his 2013 wedding when Aisultan was still being groomed for tsardom in Kazakhstan.

His bride was Alima Boranbayeva, then 20, a student at the Courtauld Institute of Art in London, daughter of an oil mogul involved in Kazakh-Russian trade.

Aisultan used the family name Nazarbayev because his maternal grandfather, the then president, wanted to groom him for leadership roles.His own ex-spy chief father Rakhat Aliyev was banished from

Kazakhstan after falling out with the authoritarian ruler.

His parents were forced by his grandfather to divorce and his father later died in mysterious circumstances - officially from “hanging” - in a Vienna jail in 2015 after Nazarbayev sought his return face a court for murder,.

Six months ago Aisultan, in London, called on people in his homeland to “unite against the power inside the country”.He said: “We will prove to those who are at the helm of the state that they are not Gods.

“They can, of course, pursue us, kill us, take away freedom and even drive us into the most deadlock situations in life.

“But, believe me, God is with us and we will win.

“At this time, my family is trying to put pressure on me.”

He claimed to have information about corruption between the government of Russia and Kazakhstan.

He also claimed that he had been drugged on a visit to Moscow and that his wife had been ordered to divorce him.

The young man had been the Kazakh Football Federation's vice-president in charge of relations with FIFA and UEFA.

He went to Sandhurst in 2009 because his grandfather wanted him to follow in the footsteps of British princes William and Harry, it was reported at the time.

It was also claimed that Prince Andrew - a frequent visitor to Kazakhstan - had fixed it for the dictator to ensure his grandson got the best military education at the academy.

Reference: Mirror: Will Stewart: 1 day ago: 18th August 2020