Nadezhda Tokayeva
Nadezhda Davydovna Tokayeva is the ex-wife of the second president of Kazakhstan, Kassym-Jomart Tokayev.
Early life and education
Tokayeva was born in Nizhny Tagil in Russia's Sverdlovsk Oblast. She graduated from the Moscow State Institute for History and Archives.Career
She served as the honorary president of the United Nations Women's Guild in Geneva from 2011 to 2012.Personal life
At the time of taking office as President of Kazakhstan, Kassym-Jomart Tokayev was divorced from Nadezhda, as indicated on the official website in March 2019. It is presumed that the divorce took place between 27 and 29 March 2019.Together with her ex-husband, she has a son, Timur.
In 1998, she and her son Timur opened a Credit Suisse bank account, even though she qualified as a politically [exposed person], which at its height in 2005 contained 1.5 million US$. After her husband became director-general of the United Nations’ Geneva office, the account was closed in 2012, and the family opened offshore companies in the British Virgin Islands, with $5 million in assets plus properties in Geneva and Moscow at $7.7 million.