Kazakh Ex-Spy Chief, Presidential Guard on Trial in Austria for Murder

Kazakhstan's former spy chief and a presidential family guard went on trial for murder in Austria on Tuesday just weeks after the main suspect, the president's former son-in-law, was found hanged in his cell in Vienna. Austria had twice refused to extradite Rakhat Aliyev, a former Kazakh ambassador to Austria who became a vocal critic of President Nursultan Nazarbayev, and had been investigating the case for eight years. Prosecutors showed what they said was a reconstruction of the 2007 kidnap, sexual assault and murder of two bankers whom ex-secret service chief, Alnur Mussayev, and presidential guard, Vadim Koshlyak, allegedly killed out of loyalty to Aliyev.