Investigation: Is Shakhmurat Mutalip Kazakhstan’s New Chosen One? The 35-year-old is building an empire spanning railways, energy and mining. Most Kazakhs have never heard of him. A photo posted in 2013 on the Russian social media site VKontakte shows a group of young men posing together at the top of a staircase. It is unclear when the image was taken,… May 30, 2026

Channel
KIAR
@kiarcenter
On this record: Growth · Engagement · What this channel posts · Posts · Citations · Cite this entry
283subscribers
+0 since we began measuring on 7 August 2026
Risers and fallers across the register · movement among entries of Under 1,000.
Register entry
| Telegram ID | -1001182553222 |
|---|---|
| Type | Channel |
| Username | @kiarcenter |
| Description | Kazakhstani Initiative on Asset Recovery |
| Created | 3 May 2019 — measured — cross-checked against a third-party dataset (ext.tg_channel) |
| First recorded | 8 August 2026 |
| Last confirmed live | 16 August 2026 |
| Measurements held | 2 |
| On Telegram | t.me/kiarcenter |
Growth
| Measured (UTC) | Subscribers | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 8 Aug 2026, 08:31 | 283 | no change |
| 7 Aug 2026, 15:07 | 283 | first reading |
Engagement
20 posts held, back to 21 February 2025 — the reader has not yet reached the start of this channel’s public history, so older posts may sit further back, unread. Read across 1 pageof Telegram’s post history, 20 posts per page.
Nothing published in the last 30 days. ERR and ER are rolling 30-day measures, so there is nothing to compute — we hold 20 posts for this entry, the most recent from 30 May 2026. An engagement rate over an empty window would be a number about nothing.
What this channel posts
- Photos
- 350
- Links
- 43
Lifetime counters from Telegram’s own channel header, read 8 August 2026 — not the date at the top of this page, which is when the subscriber count was last read. Below Telegram’s rounding threshold, so these counts are exact.
Recent posts
Mutmaßlicher Russland-Spion festgenommen Schlag gegen Russland-Spionage! Am gestrigen Dienstag hat die Bundesanwaltschaft den kasachischen Staatsangehörigen Sergej K. (50) in Berlin festnehmen lassen. Außerdem wurden in der Bundeshauptstadt die Räumlichkeiten des Beschuldigten sowie einer nicht tatverdächtigen Person durchsucht. Sergej K. ist dringend verdächtig, für Russland spioniert zu haben. Unter ander…
Timur Turlov, a fraudster under FSB protection, transferred billions of Russians’ money through Freedom Finance to Kazakhstan and abroad, while maintaining control over his structures The transfer of Timur Turlov’s business to nominal owners and his subsequent departure from Russia left many in disbelief, given that his flagship asset, the bank Freedom Finance, had raised serious concerns with authori…
The $184m loan that vanished from the balance sheet FRHC Investigative Reporter Published: October 26, 2025 Freedom Holding Corp (FRHC), a Nasdaq-listed financial services group with deep roots in Kazakhstan, has built a corporate fortress around its controlling shareholder. While the company presents itself as a compliant US entity, an analysis of its 2025 proxy statement reveals a governance str…
Two peers face suspension from House of Lords Two peers are set to be suspended from the House of Lords for breaching rules, including providing parliamentary services in return for “payment or reward”. Former Army chief Lord Richard Dannatt and businessman Lord David Evans of Watford face suspensions of four and five months respectively. The House of Lords’ standards watchdog launched separate… …
Plundering the Endowment: How a U.S.-Anchored Charity Became a Vehicle for Global Corruption ------------- A Vision for Education, Undone by Insiders In 2019, Kazakhstan’s Nazarbayev University and Nazarbayev Intellectual Schools sought to safeguard their future with a U.S.-based endowment. The structure, designed by former Deputy Prime Minister Yerbol Orynbayev, was meant to insulate funding from political …
How Maksat Duisenov ‘set up’ all political refugees It appears that German judicial authorities are close to extraditing former Transport Prosecutor of the Republic of Kazakhstan Maksat Duisenov to the General Prosecutor’s Office of Kazakhstan. After a month of proceedings, not only did they find no evidence that Duisenov was being politically persecuted in his homeland, but they also began to wonde…
European Parliament pledges to tackle transnational repression against human rights defenders A parliamentary report identified China and other authoritarian regimes as harassing and attacking dissidents abroad, echoing findings from ICIJ’s China Targets. The European Parliament has adopted a resolution urging member states to confront efforts by authoritarian regimes to coerce, control o…
The Internet Coup A Technical Analysis on How a Chinese Company is Exporting The Great Firewall to Autocratic Regimes Over the past two decades, the Chinese government has been steadily refining their model of internet control using surveillance and censorship technologies domestically while promoting this approach to other nations under the banner of “digital sovereignty”. Through the… Sep…
https://www.gov.uk/guidance/uk-sanctions-guidance-for-kazakh-businesses
Journalist targeted by Russian spy ring said ordeal was ‘deeply detabilising’ A journalist targeted by a Russian spy ring operating out of a rundown UK guesthouse has said the surveillance on him was “terrifying, disorientating and deeply destabilising”. Bellingcat investigative journalist Christo Grozev submitted a victim impact statement to the court in which he said the “damage” caused b…
New report: NAPOLEON COMPLEX The Corruption of Kazakh Prime Minister Karim Massimov In Kazakhstan in early January 2022, 227 people were tragically killed when popular demonstrations over gas prices turned into violent riots. Over a year later a former prime minister of Kazakhstan, Karim Massimov, was jailed for treason for his apparent role in the unrest. His imprisonment marked an incredible fa…
Showing the 12 most recent of 20 posts we hold for @kiarcenter. View and reaction counts are the latest single reading for each post, not a live figure, and a recent post is still accumulating both. A view count marked ≈ was rounded by Telegram before we ever saw it — t.me prints views in full below 1,000 and to three significant figures above, so ≈1,200,000 means somewhere between 1,150,000 and 1,249,999. Unmarked counts are exact. Text is reproduced from the public post preview and truncated for length.
Citation-graph rank
Citation-graph rank — 1,356,335 of 1,481,306entries in the measured graph. A weighted position computed from the forward and mention edges below — republished posts weigh more than named mentions — and recomputed periodically, over the whole graph. Published only as this ordinal position, never as a score: a position is a fact, and a score printed beside one channel’s name would read as a verdict this register does not make. The two counts beneath stay separate for the same reason mentions are never summed with forwards anywhere else on this page — a named-by count costs nothing to manufacture. The top 100 by this measure, or how it is computed.
Forward network
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Channels on the register that have forwarded this channel's posts into their own feed.
Built only from forwarded posts we have actually read, on both sides. Coverage is early and deliberately incomplete: a missing link means we have not read the post that would prove it, never that the relationship does not exist. Counts are distinct forwarded posts observed, so they only ever go up as we read more.
Cite this entry
A live page changes as we take new readings, so a citation should name the measurement it is based on, not just the URL. The line below cites the subscriber count as measured 8 August 2026 — this entry's latest reading, not the date you are reading this.
“KIAR” (@kiarcenter), 283 subscribers as measured 8 August 2026. Telegram Register, tgregister.com/channel/kiarcenter.
Full measurement history, CC BY 4.0. Every reading this register holds for this entry, not just the latest one, as a dated, downloadable record: CSV · JSON. Free to use with attribution to tgregister.com. Each file carries its own generation timestamp, which is the figure to cite for exactly when the data was retrieved.