{"id":17052,"date":"2017-12-01T07:28:48","date_gmt":"2017-12-01T06:28:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.leila-khrapunova.com\/?p=17052"},"modified":"2020-02-14T22:05:21","modified_gmt":"2020-02-14T21:05:21","slug":"attempts-to-kidnap-victor-khrapunov-from-switzerand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.leila-khrapunova.com\/en\/attempts-to-kidnap-victor-khrapunov-from-switzerand\/","title":{"rendered":"Attempts to kidnap Victor Khrapunov from Switzerand"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\"><p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]June 25 and November 3 2012, saw two attempts by Kazakhstan authorities to smuggle Victor Khtapunov out of Switzerland into countries more loyal to Kazakhstan than Switzerland in order to turn him over to Kazakhstan\u2019s special services.<\/p>\n<p>President Nazarbayev had been preparing Victor Khtapunov\u2019s kidnapping from Switzerland with the help of ex-Mossad agents and the Kazakhstan National Security Committee. These facts were at that time made public by Kazakhstan Wikileaks and received the world\u2019s media coverage.<\/p>\n<p>Victor Khrapunov\u2019s kidnapping attempts, the surveillance of his family by detective agencies hired by the Nazarbayev regime, the hacking of their email accounts, and other unlawful activities were all registered in Switzerland and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.letemps.ch\/suisse\/2015\/04\/17\/opposants-kazakhs-piste-enlevement-passait-vevey\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">reported by Swiss media, in particular, the popular newspaper Le Temps.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.letemps.ch\/suisse\/2015\/04\/17\/opposants-kazakhs-piste-enlevement-passait-vevey\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-12324 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.leila-khrapunova.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/le-temps-300x214.png\" alt=\"Le Temps\" width=\"300\" height=\"214\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.leila-khrapunova.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/le-temps-300x214.png 300w, https:\/\/www.leila-khrapunova.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/le-temps.png 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>June 25 and November 3 2012, saw two attempts by Kazakhstan authorities to smuggle Victor Khtapunov out of Switzerland into countries more loyal to Kazakhstan than Switzerland in order to turn him over to Kazakhstan\u2019s special services<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":11389,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[358,315],"tags":[318,321,308,331,325,329,326,335,332,322],"class_list":["post-17052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-developments-and-publications","category-political-persecution-of-the-khrapunov-family","tag-authoritarian-regime","tag-dictator-nazarbayev","tag-kazakhstan-en","tag-kazakhstan-media","tag-leila-khrapunova-en","tag-mukhtar-ablyazov-en","tag-nazarbayev-s-clan","tag-political-persecution","tag-timur-kalibayev","tag-victor-khrapunov"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.leila-khrapunova.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17052"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.leila-khrapunova.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.leila-khrapunova.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.leila-khrapunova.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.leila-khrapunova.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17052"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.leila-khrapunova.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17052\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18653,"href":"https:\/\/www.leila-khrapunova.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17052\/revisions\/18653"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.leila-khrapunova.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.leila-khrapunova.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.leila-khrapunova.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.leila-khrapunova.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}