The government of Kazakhstan has approved the new Corporate Governance Code of the National Wealth Fund Samruk-Kazyna. The new version of the code doesn’t include any references to the role of Ex-President Nursultan Nazarbayev in the Fund Management Council (FMC).
The previous version of the code said that issues related to the governance of the fund must be considered at meetings of the FMC. In turn, the FMC was chaired by the first president – Elbasy (Leader of the Nation). Now any references to him have been removed from the document.
According to Samruk-Kazyna, the changes to item 4 of...