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Nursultan Nazarbayev's nephew owes $132K to The Plaza - NY Post

AKIPRESS.COM - dnaz Daniyar Nazarbayev, the nephew of Kazakhstan President Nursultan Nazarbayev, hasn’t paid a dime in building fees for his sprawling $20 million apartment at the storied hotel for the past year, a new lawsuit charges, the New York Post reported Monday.

The condo board at the tony address now wants to kick him out over the $132,000 debt, the report reads.

The 26-year-old man owes $71,000 in common charges, $12,000 in late fees, $7,500 in interest, $5,700 for electric bills, $33,000 for an assessment and a $30 carbon-monoxide alarm payment, according to the foreclosure proceeding filed in Manhattan Civil Court on Monday.

But Daniyar’s lawyer, Russ Nazrisho, dismissed the claim, telling The Post that his client isn’t even living in the 18th-floor, 4,000-square-foot pad, but is in Hong Kong instead.

Nazrisho also had sworn to a judge just last week that his client — who was once engaged to the Malaysian prime minister’s daughter — “paid real-estate taxes and other carrying charges on the property.”

Meanwhile, the lawyer denied the claims that Daniyar’s stepdad, fertilizer tycoon Bolat Nazarbayev, made in an unrelated 2012 lawsuit about the young man’s admittance to Columbia.

That lawsuit was brought by Bolat, the Kazakhstan president’s brother, against Daniyar’s mom, his ex-wife, over the Plaza pad.

Bolat sued his ex-wife and Daniyar, claiming they swindled him out of the plush apartment by tricking him into signing a power of attorney that gifted the Central Park South apartment to Daniyar for $1.

Daniyar’s mom, Maira Nazarbayeva, insists that the then-couple had purchased the apartment as a crash pad for Daniyar and their younger son, Khanbolat.

In his lawsuit, Bolat alleged that his stepson was nothing but a grifter who used a fabricated diploma from a Kazakhstan high school to gain admission to the Ivy League school, when in fact he studied at a Swiss institution.

But “there has been no deposition of Daniyar or of Columbia officials. They’re just allegations,” Nazrisho said.

Bolat had been on the verge of retaking the Plaza unit, No. 1801, earlier this year when he presented a Manhattan judge with a purported settlement with Maira.

But the judge refused to approve the agreement in February because Maira is currently under house arrest in Kazakhstan.

In court papers filed last week, Nazrisho said Maira had been planning last fall to resolve the dispute until she was detained.

The same “high ranking law enforcement officer” who was in charge of investigating her criminal case ordered her to sign a deal that would give the Plaza pad to Bolat in exchange for her freedom, the court papers say.

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