Yerzhan Tatishev
Yerzhan Tatishev | |
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| Born | April 22, 1967 Turbat, Kazygurt District, Turkistan Region, Kazakhstan |
| Died | December 19, 2004 (aged 37) |
| Occupation | Banking executive |
| Known for | Chairman and CEO of BTA Bank JSC |
Yerzhan Tatishev (, Erjan Nūreldaiymūly Tätışev; 22 April 1967 – 19 December 2004) was a prominent Kazakhstani banking executive who held the positions of chairman and CEO at BTA Bank JSC.
At the age of 37, Tatishev passed away in December 2004 due to a gunshot injury he sustained while driving through the Jambyl Region. Initially, Kazakh entrepreneur Muratkhan Tokmadi asserted that the shooting occurred accidentally during a hunting excursion and received a one-year sentence for manslaughter. Nevertheless, in 2017, authorities reopened the investigation after Tokmadi admitted in a documentary that he intentionally killed Tatishev, allegedly under orders from former oligarch Mukhtar Ablyazov. Subsequently, in March 2018, Tokmadi was handed a prison term of ten and a half years. Ablyazov, currently based in France, is wanted by law enforcement agencies in Kazakhstan, Russia, and Ukraine on charges related to financial offenses.
Tatishev’s origins trace back to Turbat in the Kazygurt District, Turkistan Region of southern Kazakhstan. He completed his engineering and technology degree at the Moscow Institute of Applied Biotechnology in 1991 and later obtained a master's degree in economics from the Kazakh State Academy of Management.