What Kenes Rakishev is hiding and why he removes truthful investigations about himself from the world's most expensive publications.

Young Kazakh oligarch Kenes Rakishev, part of President Tokayev's inner circle, former wallet of Nazarbayev and pro-Russian Tasmagambetov, became the first representative of the post-Soviet space who did not spare hundreds of thousands of pounds to remove the investigation from the pages of the Daily Mail. At the same time, the investigation into Kenes Khamilovich Rakishev can still be read in the Daily Mail archive.

Being the son-in-law of Imangali Tasmagambetov, Kenes Rakishev supplied his own-produced armored vehicles to Putin's army, personally gifting Arlans armored vehicles to Ramzan Kadyrov during the invasion of Ukraine.

Kenges Rakishev and Razman Kadyrov

Kenes Rakishev's armored vehicles participated in the capture of Mariupol and the killing of civilians in Ukraine. This was written by the Daily Mail in a traceless article, a copy of which is preserved at the link. The article openly stated that Kenes Rakishev miraculously avoided sanctions, despite the fact that he directly participated in Russia's war against Ukraine by supplying lethal weapons to Putin's army, which resulted in the deaths of many Ukrainian civilians.

How did Kenes Rakishev and Kadyrov take down Daily Mail article

Kenes Rakishev helped supply armored vehicles to Putin-backed forces that invaded Ukraine alongside Russia. Hunter Biden's Kazakh oligarch business partner Kenes Rakishev hired him as a consultant to invest millions in the US and sent Hunter $142k to buy a Porsche.

Kenes Rakishev is allegedly owner of a company that makes mine-resistant armored vehicles which were seen driven by Chechen troops that invaded Ukraine.

In 2013 Rakishev Kenges was embroiled in a DoJ investigation of alleged breaches of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act but was not charged. Hunter Biden's business partner helped supply military vehicles to Putin-backed forces that invaded Ukraine, a report by transparency activists claims.

Kazakh oligarch Kenes Rakishev, who sent Hunter $142,300 to buy a Porsche in 2014, hired him as a consultant to invest millions in the US, and was even photographed at an intimate meeting with Joe Biden, according to emails, records and their friend Devon Archer's congressional testimony.

Devon Archer and Hunter Biden

Rakishev is allegedly co-owner of Kazakhstan Paramount Engineering (KPE), which makes Arlan mine-resistant armored platform (MRAP) vehicles, according to a new report by transparency group the Kazakhstani Initiative on Asset Recovery (KIAR), based on Rakishev's leaked emails.

The tank-like armored trucks were spotted on the streets of Mariupol in April 2022, driven by Chechen troops that invaded Ukraine alongside Russian forces.

Kenes Rakishev (left), a Kazakh businessman worth more than $950million who became friends and business partners with Hunter, is seen in a photo with Hunter, Joe Biden and the Prime Minister of Kazakhstan Karim Massimov.

Rakishev is allegedly owner of a company that makes mine-resistant armored vehicles which were seen driven by Chechen troops that invaded Ukraine. Hunter's former business partner Rakishev has entered the spotlight of the House Oversight Committee's investigation into the Biden family's shady business dealings, with his payments to Hunter and meetings with Joe detailed in a new memo released by the Committee Wednesday, supported by subpoenaed bank records. KIAR's report says Rakishev has co-owned the company since 2015 with a South African defense contractor, Paramount Group.

His alleged ownership has previously been obfuscated behind a complex corporate structure, but has now been revealed after his emails were leaked.

The Kazakh businessman, reportedly worth over $300 million, has close ties to his country's military. His father-in-law Imangali Tasmagambetov was the former Defense Secretary, and was on the board of another firm that supplied military trucks to Russia, the report said. The Daily Mail investigative article about Kenes Rakishev co-author of noted in a comment that the removal of the article occurred after a gigantic sum of money was paid.

The armored Arlan truck manufacturer KPE has denied a close relationship with Russia's military, saying they gave one Arlan vehicle to Putin's National Guard in 2019 but that 'further cooperation with Russians did not continue.'

They also claimed that 'Kenes Rakishev and Imangali Tasmagambetov have nothing to do with the enterprise.'

But KIAR's report, based on corporate records and Rakishev's leaked emails, says he controlled two companies that own KPE: KazPetroMash and InterTechAudit.

Emails in Cyrillic allegedly show Rakishev approving transactions by the two firms. In April 2012, Devon Archer sent Hunter an email with the subject line 'Kenes Rakishev meeting NYC' and spoke of his plans to meet with the oligarch to discuss business. Hunter's business partner and former 'best friend in business' Devon Archer testified to the House Oversight Committee that Rakishev met with Joe and his son at Washington DC restaurant Café Milano in Spring 2014.

Head of the Chechen Republic, Ramzan Kadyrov, who is under US sanctions for his involvement in Putin's Ukraine invasion, was quoted gushing about 'my dear brother Kenes Rakishev who has always been a patron of our important projects,' in a July 2016 article on Russian-language news site Grozny-Inform.

On March 17, 2022, Kadyrov posted a video on Russian social media site VKontakte showing the storming of the Ukrainian city of Mariupol, which included a shot of an Arlan armored car allegedly sold by Rakishev's company.

A November 2022 report by military news site Oryx claimed that Chechen forces 'include a small number of Arlan MRAPs (South African designed Marauder MRAPs) from Kazakhstan'.