Serik Akhmetov

Serik Akhmetov
Серік Ахметов
Akhmetov in 2013
8th Prime Minister of Kazakhstan
In office 24 September 2012 – 2 April 2014
President	Nursultan Nazarbayev
Preceded by	Karim Massimov
Succeeded by	Karim Massimov
First Deputy Prime Minister of Kazakhstan
In office 20 January 2012 – 24 September 2012
Prime Minister	Karim Massimov
Preceded by	Umirzak Shukeyev
Succeeded by	Krymbek Kusherbayev
Deputy Prime Minister of Kazakhstan
In office 3 March 2009 – 16 November 2009
Prime Minister	Karim Massimov
Minister of Defense
In office 3 April 2014 – 22 October 2014
President	Nursultan Nazarbayev
Prime Minister	Karim Massimov
Preceded by	Adilbek Dzhaksybekov
Succeeded by	Imangali Tasmagambetov
Minister of Transport and Communications
In office 25 September 2006 – 3 March 2009
President	Nursultan Nazarbayev
Prime Minister	Karim Massimov
Preceded by	Askar Mamin
Succeeded by	Äbilgazy Qusaiynov
Äkim of Karaganda Region
In office 19 November 2009 – 20 January 2012
Preceded by	Nurlan Nigmatulin
Succeeded by	Äbilgazy Qusaiynov
Äkim of Temirtau
In office March 2001 – 8 July 2003
Preceded by	Alii Karablin
Succeeded by	Baldyrgan Musin
Personal details
Born	(1958-06-25) 25 June 1958 (age 65) Temirtau, Kazakh SSR, Soviet Union (now Kazakhstan)
Political party	Nur Otan

Serik Nyghmetuly Akhmetov (Kazakh: Серік Нығметұлы Ахметов, romanized: Serık Nyğmetūly Ahmetov; born 25 June 1958) was a Prime Minister of Kazakhstan from 2012 to 2014. He served as the Minister of Defense from April to October 2014.

Akhmetov served for a time as first deputy akim of Astana before being appointed to government as Minister of Transport and Communications on 25 September 2006. He has also served as Chairman of the Board of the Atameken National Union of Entrepreneurs and Employers of Kazakhstan since 2005. From March 2009, Akhmetov served as Deputy Prime Minister before becoming the akim of Karaganda Region in November 2009. In January 2012, he was appointed as the First Deputy Prime Minister before becoming PM following the resignation of Karim Massimov on 24 September 2012.

In November 2014, Akhmetov was arrested after being accused of committing a crime while serving as an äkim of Karaganda Region to which he was convicted in December 2015. He was eventually released in September 2017.^[1]