Dinara Smailova

Smailova Dinara Botaevna was born on February 2, 1969.

Sister – Akhmet Zhanara Botaevna (Zhanna Bota).

Organizer and leader of the PF "Public movement against violence "NeMolchi.kz".

Dinara Smailova is better known on social networks as Dina Tansari. She took her pseudonym in honor of the children's theater "Tansari", the producer of which she once was (it was formed in January 2004).

In July 2016, an Internet flash mob #I'mnotafraidtospeak against violence and sexual harassment was launched in Russia and Ukraine. Tens of thousands of women shared their stories of abuse.

In August 2016, Dinara Smailova also shared a post on her Facebook page, with details of rape that occurred 20 years ago, accompanying it with the hashtag #don'tbesilent.

In one night, the producer of the children's theater turned into a social activist. Very soon, Smailova announced the creation of the NeMolchi.kz movement. But a year later, a series of scandals began, the main character of which was Dinara Smailova.

In September 2017, Aliya Sarbalina, Moldir Zhumabayeva and Kalamkas Dosanova, former associates of Smailova, made a number of accusations against her at a press conference in Almaty.

They stated that they had noticed Smailova's financial fraud by raising funds supposedly to help women victims of violence, including paying for lawyers and organizing travel for the leader of the organization in Kazakhstan.

They also accused Smailova of disclosing confidential data of women victims of sexual violence who turned to NeMolchi.kz for help.

Dinara Smailova, live on Facebook, denied the accusations against her, saying that she had no motive for personal self-interest, since all funds went to volunteer activities, which was what the #NeMolchiKZ movement was doing until it was formalized into a public fund.

Aliya Sarbalina, Moldir Zhumabayeva and Kalamkas Dosanova submitted a collective complaint against Dina Smailova to the prosecutor's office of the Bostandyk district of Almaty on September 12, 2017. Two days later, Erbol Kulbayev, the acting prosecutor of the Bostandyk district, sent their application to the Department of Internal Affairs of the city of Almaty "for making a procedural decision."

In response to this order, Lieutenant Colonel Rustam Abdrakhmanov, head of the investigation department of the Almaty Department of Internal Affairs, in his letter dated September 25, informed the prosecutor and the authors of the collective appeal that it had been sent to the city department of the National Anti-Corruption Bureau "to organize further pre-trial investigation."

After Smailova published a post about the rape she experienced, she was actively supported by the leaders of human rights organizations, including the director of the public foundation "Voluntary Society "Miloserdie" (Mercy) " Aruzhan Sain. Six months later, a serious confrontation flared up between them. It was caused by a criminal case against Serik Asylbekov, a former pupil of orphanage No. 1 in Almaty.

The story of Serik Asylbekov and a 10-year-old orphanage pupil began when journalists got a video in which the boy spoke about what he had to endure in the walls of the Almaty orphanage.

According to him, in the institution, he was subjected to sexual harassment by a certain man, whom he called Serik, and who, at the same time, was neither an educator nor a teacher.

Dinara Smailova and several of her associates sided with Asylbekov. Moreover, they posted on social networks a photo and personal data of the injured boy. At the same time, Aruzhan Sain sought to remove the child from the orphanage and transfer him under the care of a foster family.

In December 2016, the specialized inter-district criminal court of Almaty issued a verdict in the case of sexual harassment in the orphanage No. 1 in Almaty. 19-year-old graduate of the orphanage Serik Asylbekov was found guilty.

In accordance with Art. 121 part 4 of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Kazakhstan "Violent actions of a sexual nature" Asylbekov was sentenced to 15 years in prison. He was also banned for life from teaching positions. In March 2017, the Board of Appeal upheld Serik Asylbekov's sentence.

Among those who supported Smailova in the story with Asylbekov was Natalya Slekishina. In early July 2016, she was serving a criminal sentence, while she stated that she had given birth to a daughter after a gang rape by the colony employees.

Natalya claimed that she repeatedly filed complaints about rape, but they were not accepted. Molecular examination confirmed that the girl's father is one of the prison guards – Ruslan Khakimov.

On September 13, in court, Slekishina refused the services of a lawyer, and already on September 17 she handed over a note to the lawyer Aiman Umarova, who by that time was actively collaborating with the Nemolchi movement. In the note, Slekishina said that she was in serious danger and needed help.

Threatening a hunger strike, the mother of the newborn girl demanded a meeting with a lawyer and the press, her demands were met.

On September 30, the Turksib District Court sentenced Khakimov to 9 years in prison. Also, in September 2016, Slekishina and her lawyer filed a petition with the Iliysky District Court to suspend the sentence. It was granted, and in February 2017 Slekishina was released for 5 years to raise three minor children.

On September 20, 2017, Natalya Slekishina left a comment under one of her Facebook posts, in which she wrote:

Soon Umarova's lawyer also stepped aside from Smailova's movement.

According to some reports, the reason for this, was the money to protect Asylbekov, which Smailova took without the knowledge of Umarova under pressure from an adherent of the New Life church, Jamila Doskazi, and a great friend of the Soros Foundation, Aida Alzhanova.

Smailova and orphanage No. 1 should be a separate story. But first, we suggest listening to an audio, which will deal a crushing blow to the reputation of Smailova herself (although could it get any worse?):

But who is Indira and why should the director of the orphanage be fired?

In March 2021, investigators from the Financial Monitoring Agency of the Republic of Kazakhstan (FER for Almaty) completed the investigation of a criminal case against employees and officials of the Almaty Regional Orphanage No. 1 in Baganashyl. They are accused of embezzling 70 million tenge from the accounts of children from the orphanage.

The investigators identified one of the social pedagogues who appropriated and spent the money of children from the orphanage. They received benefits for the loss of a breadwinner and for disability. As a result, the pupils of the orphanage suffered material damage on an especially large scale – in the amount of 68.5 million tenge, which led to a significant violation of their rights and legitimate interests.

Currently, criminal cases on the facts of misappropriation or embezzlement of entrusted property of others on an especially large scale (Article 189 part 4 of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Kazakhstan) in relation to a social teacher and negligence (Article 371 part 1 of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Kazakhstan) in relation to the director of the orphanage have been sent to court.

The embezzlement scandal happened in August 2020. And when the fraud schemes came out, the "lawyer" Almat Mukhamedzhanov and a graduate of orphanage No. 1, Indira Bekbatyrova, held a press conference.

According to a representative of the Ne Molchi Foundation, pupils of the Almaty Regional Orphanage No. 1 reached out to them through the telephone helpline, who spoke about the systematic embezzlement of funds from their personal accounts.

The children claimed that those who noticed the loss of their money demanded an explanation from the director of the institution. The children who were especially furiously indignant were even returned the entire amount, only, presumably, at the expense of other pupils.

The orphans assured the public that financial fraud in the orphanage had been reported two years ago, addressing the children's ombudsman directly, but they did not receive any help.

However, in reality it was not quite so. In fact, the children's ombudsman Aruzhan Sain reported the theft. Which, as follows from the audio recording, "ordered" to fire the stealing director.

And Dinara Smailova staged another multi-move, relaxing under the roof of the people's deputies. Smirnova, by the way, actively stood up for the pedophile Asylbekov.

And the time has come to clarify who Almat Mukhamedzhanov is. Until 2016, absolutely nothing is known about his legal career. Moreover, he worked as a simple photographer and is still the head of a small printing office of LLP Asierto.

At first, Mukhamedzhanov simply photographed Smailova, and then he entered her service. He also authored professional photographs of the victim of gang rape, the first ward of the Nemolchi.kz foundation, Zhibek Musinova.

It is not known for what merits a simple photographer and part-time editor-in-chief of the medical newspaper Mukhamedzhanov suddenly became the director of the fund and a lawyer. But they say that sometimes he calls Smailova his wife.

In December 2020, journalist, blogger and expert Denis Krivosheev published an article in which he stated that a phenomenon called the "Tansari Effect" appeared in Kazakhstan.

Krivosheev cited the scheme of work of Dinara Smailova: a conditional victim of violence is taken, a conditional rapist is taken and the situation is shaking.

He noted a feature common to all cases: Smailova usually forces the victim to make a video, create accounts on social networks and actively personalize the story. Smailova herself writes an emotional post in which she talks about what happened as a proven fact, calls the conditional rapist a criminal, accuses law enforcement officers and judges of bias.

The blogger noted that a colossal information field has been created in the country, "completely filled with news about rape, abuse of children or beating of women." At the same time, quite often in these cases not only is there no verdict passed by the court, but there aren't even any initiated criminal cases.

At the same time, Denis Krivosheev draws attention to the fact that not all the stories told by Smailova on social networks lead to a court sentence for the so-called rapists.

Another story happened in Pavlodar. On October 16, 2020, Dinara Smailova wrote a post on her Facebook page:

Then, according to Smailova, the girl was able to escape from the "kidnapper" and call an ambulance, "but he stole her right from the ambulance before entering the hospital" and took her to a rented apartment. As Smailova wrote, the suspect beat the woman all night, raped her, washed away the evidence.

The girl is taken to the hospital, the man is taken to the police, from where they are released three hours later. At the same time, Smailova said: "The police are hiding this criminal because he is allegedly a valuable informant." The publication was accompanied by a video with a beaten girl.

The next day, the policemen of Pavlodar published the official version and presented the chronology of events established by them in this case. A careful and thorough check was carried out on the fact of the "brutal beating".

It turns out that on October 12, a 54-year-old woman turned to the police, asking to find her 26-year-old daughter. And investigators found her the same day: the girl was with a friend in a rented apartment.

According to the video provided by the owner of the apartment, no one forcibly kept the girl in the apartment. But, according to law enforcement officers, on October 14, in the middle of the night, the police received a call from the residents of the house with the wording: "Neighbors are making noise, breaking the silence."

The district inspector arrived at this apartment, the door was opened by her mistress. Also, inside was a 26-year-old girl and her 24-year-old close acquaintance, who were taken to the police. The girl said that she was seven weeks pregnant from this man.

According to her, on this day, as on the previous ones, they rested. Subsequently, a quarrel broke out between them, during which the man inflicted bodily harm on her. However, the victim refused any further proceedings, as they are in a close relationship.

The police said that administrative proceedings were initiated against the man for violating the silence, and a protective order was also issued to ensure safety in the sphere of family and domestic relations.

After clarifying the circumstances, the police called an ambulance for the girl, that took her to the hospital. On the same day, in the hospital, the police spoke with the girl again. She again refused to file an application for a wrongful act committed by a man.

Dinara Smailova, in a group with another public figure Dana Ormanbayeva, actively persecuted Denis Krivosheev and the Ombudsman for Children Aruzhan Sain. The reason for this was the story of a 6-year-old girl, Liza Pylaeva, who died under unclear circumstances in May 2019.

Smailova and Ormanbayeva almost immediately joined the support group of the girl's father, Alexander Pylaev. For a long time, they blamed Lisa's mother and her relatives for the death of the child and demanded the participation of public opinion leaders and the children's ombudsman in this case.

Krivosheev, however, at first took a neutral position, then entered into an open confrontation with Smailova and Ormanbayeva, for which he was subjected to harassment from their side for a long time: both social women published offensive posts and left negative comments about him.

As for Aruzhan Sain, Smailova and Ormanbayeva openly declared their distrust of her as a children's ombudsman, emphasizing that she did not agree to open debates with them. At the same time, none of them bothered to clearly formulate the topic and the need for such a debate. As a result, Smailova and Ormanbaeva demanded Sain's resignation from the post of commissioner for children's rights.

At the same time, Dinara Smailova herself became the object of harassment. She was a strong supporter of amendments to the draft law on the prevention of domestic violence. At the same time, no explanations were given to the public about this document. As a result, by the decision of President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, the bill was sent for revision. Immediately after that, Smailova began to receive a large number of negative comments and threats from opponents of the bill.

Trying to fight off the attacks of her opponents, Smailova began to post publications denouncing them. For example, she posted a document according to which Anatoly Kim, the main opponent of the bill, was prosecuted for torturing children.

Also, not without the participation of Smailova, it became known that one member of the working group had a criminal record for raping a minor.

However, while forgetting that she herself is not an expert, does not have the necessary education and experience to participate in the development of laws. With all this, Smailova, complaining about the persecution against her, continues to attack Krivosheev.

And one curious detail. According to available information, Smailova was attracted to the Internet massacre with Kim by ... "Oyan, Kazakhstan". It would seem, what do the instigators of democracy and the fighter against violence have in common? Is it only common foreign curators?

According to information from open sources, it is known that as of October 2020, Dinara Smailova had a travel ban outside of Kazakhstan. She has debts in three enforcement proceedings totaling 4.1 million tenge. Smailova's bank accounts have been arrested.

In 2010-2011, several executives and employees of the company, including Aigerim Akhmentaeva, were sentenced to long prison terms for fraud and embezzlement. It was decided to transfer the assets of the developer and affiliated companies, which had been seized during the investigation of the criminal case, to housing construction cooperatives created by defrauded equity holders. And those, in turn, had to transfer these assets to the state in exchange for the money needed to complete the construction.

On April 17, 2021, Dinara Smailova published a post on her Facebook page in which she said:

Smailova said that she and Mukhamedzhanov were "provided with an apartment, a flight, full provision and the opportunity to undergo a medical examination, treatment through special insurance, the opportunity to learn, change, grow, strengthen their skills."

However, Dinara Smailova's trip raises a number of questions. The main one is that she is still a debtor in enforcement proceedings and is in the register of citizens who are not allowed to leave Kazakhstan. By and large, Smailova committed an offense by leaving the country.

The second point: in April, Smailova was awaiting a trial initiated by her against Denis Krivosheev, which she herself reported on her page on the night of April 29:

Of course, both Smailova herself and her subscribers were sure that the leader of Nemolchi.KZ would win the trial. But the story did not end at all as expected: the court sided with the journalist Krivosheev. Smailova, as usual, turned the available information upside down and accused the judge of bias:

Separately, it is worth mentioning the program under which Dinara Smailova is undergoing "rehabilitation" in Tbilisi Shelter City.

This project is supervised by the Center for Participation and Development and Truth Hounds with the support of the Embassy of the Netherlands in Georgia, the National Endowment for Democracy and the Eurasian Program of the Open Society Foundation (J. Soros).

The organization's website says that "the Tbilisi Shelter City program is aimed at moving to a safe place (Tbilisi, Georgia), and creating conditions for the professional development and psychological recovery of human rights defenders, and is also designed to reduce risks and help human rights defenders leave, for some time, an unsafe environment."

The program is designed to provide a three-month course during which the human rights defender is provided with housing in a safe place, receives opportunities for education and development of skills, acquisition of new professional contacts, if necessary, he/she is provided with psychological and medical assistance.

Truth Hounds is headquartered in Kyiv. In the same place where Smailova's twin sister Zhanara Akhmet is currently located. Not without her participation, two strokes were added to Smailova's activities: criminal and political.

On May 2, Akhmet posted a video on her YouTube channel in which she said that her son, 31-year-old Darkhan Akhmetov, was under house arrest in a criminal case for gang rape and resisting police officers.

Later, this information was confirmed by the Almaty Police Department:

It follows from the materials of the investigation that Akhmetov, in a group of persons, by prior agreement, using physical force, raped two girls.

In turn, Smailova commented on the situation as follows:

However, the presentation of what is happening by her sister Zhanara Akhmet is interesting, who in her video claims that the criminal case against Akhmetov has the character of a political order against herself and her sister Dinara. Moreover, there are three customers at once: Mukhtar Ablyazov, the KNB and the Kazakh authorities."

Thus, Zhanara Ahmet, on the one hand, dealt a powerful blow to the reputation of a fighter against sexual violence, whose own nephew committed this most sexual violence. On the other hand, she is trying in every possible way to give Smailova the image of a "victim of the regime".

And Smailova herself was actively involved in this unclean game: on May 4, she published a post in which she very unconvincingly, substituting concepts and politicizing banal crime and her dubious activities, gave an assessment of what was happening:

For some reason, in this publication, Smailova also touched upon the issues of "the sale of Kazakhstani land, corrupt officials who stole billions from ordinary people, closed factories, plants, stadiums", noting that "these pseudo-patriots with a chauvinist color, plug their stinking throats."

Smailova decided not to stop there and tried to be a fortune teller:

And she was cunning: the Nemolchi.KZ Foundation nevertheless received another grant. On May 5, 2021, the presentation of the results of the Small Grants Competition for civil society organizations in Central Asia was held as part of the VI component of the Regional Program of the EU-UN Spotlight Initiative for Central Asia and Afghanistan, where 15 representatives of grantee organizations from Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan spoke about their activities and planned activities.

The total grant budget amounted to about $409,000. Five organizations from Kazakhstan became grant holders: PF "Kaisar", PF "Doktor S.N.", PF "Public Movement Against Violence "NeMolchi.KZ"", PO "Center for Development and Social Assistance to the Population" My House "", PF "Zhartas Kazakhstan ". Three from Kyrgyzstan: PF "Rehabilitation Center "Kaniyet", PF "Positive Dialogue", NGO "Tendesh". Three from Tajikistan: NGO "Mumtoz", NGO "Lojvar", NGO "World of Law". Four from Uzbekistan: Center for Development and Support of Initiatives "NIHOL", Ferghana Regional Branch of the Center for Support of Civic Initiatives, Women's Center "Istiqbol" of Khorezm Region, Center "Kalb Nuri".

It remains a mystery how Dinara Smailova was able to apply for a grant, because her foundation has been a dormant enterprise since last summer. This means that legally it exists, but in fact its activities have been suspended. Did the fighter against violence deceive a major international organization?