In a restaurant, a high-ranking politician beats his wife until she dies. Millions of Kazakhs have been watching the trial against him in a live stream for weeks. It could change the country.
On the afternoon of November 9, the former Minister of Economy of Kazakhstan received a woman in the VIP lounge of the restaurant “Bau”, located in the center of the capital Astana. The man got a bottle of champagne. The woman later claimed that they were talking about a golf tournament because they played golf at the same club. She later sent the man a message: “By the way, you smell like roses.” The man’s wife was nearby during the meeting, just a few meters away from the couple in another VIP lounge. Maybe she was dying. Maybe she was already dead.