Major General Akmurad Nazarovich Kabulov (, ) is a Turkmen general and politician.

Biography

He was born in 1942 on the Bolshevik collective farm of the Moscow Raion of the Lebap Welayaty. In 1963 he graduated from the Turkmen Agricultural Institute, specializing in animal husbandry. From 1968 to 1970 she studied at the Higher School of the KGB (now the FSB Academy) in

Moscow Moscow is the Capital city, capital and List of cities and towns in Russia by population, largest city of Russia, standing on the Moskva (river), Moskva River in Central Russia. It has a population estimated at over 13 million residents with ...

. Then he worked as the head of the Chardzhou Department of the National Security Committee of Turkmenistan (known as the KNB, which is the successor organization to the Soviet

KGB The Committee for State Security (, ), abbreviated as KGB (, ; ) was the main security agency of the Soviet Union from 1954 to 1991. It was the direct successor of preceding Soviet secret police agencies including the Cheka, Joint State Polit ...

), and then as the First Deputy Chairman of the KNB. From 1992 to 1999, he served as Head of the

State Border Service of Turkmenistan The State Border Service (SBS) (, DSG) also commonly known by its paramilitary force as the Turkmen Border Troops () is a border guard agency of the Armed Forces of Turkmenistan. It is currently a public service department of the government of ...

and concurrently as the Commander of the Turkmen Border Troops. He was the first head of this agency. At the same time, he became a member of the National Security Council of Turkmenistan. In 1995, he hosted a summit of the Council of Commanders of the CIS Border Forces in Ashgabat, signing an agreement on cooperation in the protection of external borders. On 23 March 1999, he was dismissed from office "for serious shortcomings and omissions in work, failure to take exhaustive measures to strengthen military personnel, and weakening of exactingness towards subordinates."

Downfall

After the events of

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and the defeat of the Taliban in Afghanistan, President

Saparmurat Niyazov Saparmurat Atayevich Niyazov (19 February 1940 – 21 December 2006) was a Turkmenistani politician who led Turkmenistan from 1985 until his death in 2006. He was the Secretary (title), first secretary of the Communist Party of Turkmenist ...

began to remove witnesses to the drug trade, with a "purge" being carried out in the KNB that saw dozens of officers involved in drug trafficking on behalf of Niyazov receiving many years of prison sentences. Kabulov, who knew about all the crossings of the Turkmen border by drug couriers, was also detained. In December 2002, he was arrested on charges of complicity in the assassination attempt on President

in November 2002. He was sentenced to 8 years in prison. After serving his term of imprisonment and exile, he settled in

Ashgabat Ashgabat (Turkmen language, Turkmen: ''Aşgabat'') is the capital city, capital and largest city of Turkmenistan. It lies between the Karakum Desert and the Kopet Dag, Kopetdag mountain range in Central Asia, approximately 50 km (30 ...

. He is married with two sons.

Awards

He is a recipient of the following awards: * Medal "Edermenlik" (1993) * Medal "For Love of the Fatherland" (1996) * Order of Turkmenbashi (1998)

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Kabulov, Akmurad Living people Turkmenistan generals 1942 births People from Lebap Region FSB Academy alumni Prisoners and detainees of Turkmenistan

Biography

Downfall

Awards

See also

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