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[Eurasia] Umm... Chelsea football & Kazakh grandson

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Email-ID 2884130 Date 2011-07-18 21:50:49 From goodrich@stratfor.com To eurasia@stratfor.com

[Eurasia] Umm... Chelsea football & Kazakh grandson





Vladimir Putin was asked to pressure Roman Abramovich to find a place on the

Chelsea youth side for the grandson of Kazakhstan's President, the boy's

estranged father has claimed.



By Richard Orange, Almaty



9:00PM BST 17 Jul 2011



Rakhat Aliyev, who has been exiled from Kazakhstan since 2007, said that

President Nursultan Nazarbayev contacted Putin, who was then Russia's

president, to influence Mr Abramovich to favour Aisultan Nazarbayev.



"I met with Abramovich in London for my son because he was interested in

playing football for Chelsea," Mr Aliyev told the Daily Telegraph.



"Abramovich gave him a trial and he told me, 'Sorry, tell President

Nazarbayev that I can't interfere with the team's selection process. I'm

like the conductor of an orchestra, and I play with the number one

orchestra in world football.'"



When Aisultan returned to Astana, Kazakhtan's capital, to tell his

grandfather the bad news, Mr Aliyev claims he was told that Mr Nazarbayev,

through his assistant, had already tried to sway the selection.



"He said, 'What can I do? I have already made contact through the

Kremlin'," Mr Aliyev claims. "The assistant of the president called

Putin's assistant to organise this."



Mr Aliyev was exiled to Austria in 2007 after falling out Mr Nazarbayev,

compelled to divorce from his wife, and then sentenced in absentia to 40

years in prison, twenty for kidnapping two bankers, and another twenty

were for planning an attempted coup.



From exile he published a book, portraying his former father and law as a

dictator who rules through a combination of fear and corruption.



Aisultan Nazarbayev, now 21, goes under his grandfather's, rather than his

father's surname.



"That is a complete lie," he told Daily Telegraph. "I played for

Kazakhstan's Under 17 team in the European championship in Wales and after

the match against Wales some agent came and started to speak to my father.

And later I appeared in Chelsea. It was very tough to play there, so I had

another invite from Portsmouth, and at the end of the day I chose Pompey."



Dr Aliyev also claimed to have got his son his place at Portsmouth FC,

asking Sacha Gaydamak, the club's owner, to find a place for the boy.



Sacha Gaydamak is the son of Arkady Gaydamak, a Russian-Israeli

businessman who previously owned a set of mining businesses in Kazakhstan.



Aisultan Nazarbayev said he had played for Chelsea's Under-16 side for

three months and then joined the Portsmouth for a year.



"I can confirm he was here for around six months around 2007," a spokesman

for Portsmouth said.



Chelsea said it had no record of Aisultan Nazarbayev's selection taking

place.



Aisultan Nazarbayev studied at the UK's Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst,

in 2009 and is now back in Kazakhstan.



He joined the reserve team for Astana FC, the capital's lavishly funded

football club in March.



"I haven't played for the first team yet, but I assure you it will be

soon," he said.







--

Lauren Goodrich

Senior Eurasia Analyst

STRATFOR

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