Jaqsylyq Dosqaliev

Dosqaliev was born in the town of Alga of Aktobe Region. In 1979, he graduated from the Aktobe Medical Institute, specializing as a medical doctor.[1]

After graduating from the institute, from 1979 to 1986, Dosqaliev worked as a surgeon, then as first deputy chief physician of the Alga Central District Hospital. In 1988, he completed training at the All-Union Scientific Center of Surgery and in 1989, he became an assistant professor at the Aktobe Medical Institute.[1]

From 1991 to 1998, Dosqaliev served as a senior researcher and the head of the Syzganova Department of Laparoscopic Surgery, Scientific Center of Surgery. In October 1998, he became a rector at the Aktobe Medical Academy.[1]

In 1999, Dosqaliev became a member of the Aktobe Regional Maslihat.[1] From August 2000, he served as the chairman of the Healthcare Agency of the Republic of Kazakhstan before being appointed as the Minister of Healthcare on 17 October 2001.[2] On 4 April 2004, he was appointed as a rector of the RSEO of the Astana Medical University.[1]

In the 2007 Kazakh legislative election, Dosqaliev was elected as a member of the Mazhilis on the Nur Otan party list where he became the chairman of the Committee for Social and Cultural Development.[3]

On 20 November 2008, he was appointed again as a Minister of Healthcare.[4]

On 21 September 2010, Dosqaliev, during his visit to North Kazakhstan Region, arranged an unscheduled check on his subordinates and was dissatisfied with their knowledge. That same day, the financial police opened a criminal cause against Dosqaliev for abuse of office.[5] On 25 September 2010, Dosqaliev was detained by the employees of the financial police of Kazakhstan, but a day earlier his health condition deteriorated and he ended up in the National Scientific Medical Center.[6] The leadership of the Scientific Center, where the minister is located, stated that Dosqaliev was in an extremely serious condition which was in a coma. However, the financial police showed a video recording of the head of the Minister talking with doctors and at the same time actively gesturing.[7] As a result, the investigators managed to prove that the Dosqaliev faked a stroke, and the doctors of the Scientific Center admitted that they had given false testimony about his condition.[8][9][10]

Dosqaliev was accused of abuse of power and abuse of office, receiving a bribe on an especially large scale and embezzling budget funds. In particular, the investigation established that Dosqaliev received six more apartments as a bribe. He registered one of them for his close relative, and sold the other five.

On the night of 2 and 3 October 2010, the Saryarqa District Court of Astana gave an arrest warrant.[11] On 7 October 2010, by the Decree of the President of Kazakhstan, Dosqaliev was relieved from his post.[12]

On 28 April 2011, the Astana Prosecutor's Office transferred the criminal case for consideration to the Interdistrict Criminal Court. On 5 August 2011 he was sentenced to 7 years in a strict regime colony with confiscation of property.[13]

While in prison, Dosqaliev wrote a petition to President Nursultan Nazarbayev with a petition for clemency. In January 2012, by the decree of President, a pardon was issued on Dosqaliev by reducing the sentence from 7 to 2 years. After that, Dosqaliev filed a petition for parole.[14]

On 29 February 2012, the Astana City Court made a decision on parole from places of detention. On 16 March 2012, after the expiration of the time limit for filing appeals by the supervisory authorities, Dosqaliev was released.[14][15]

On 3 August 2012, despite his previous convictions, Dosqaliev was re-employed in the civil service, began to work as a researcher at the National Scientific Medical Center as the head of the organ transplant center.[16]

Since 2013, he has been working as a leader at the Republican Center for Transplantation.[17]