Maxim Bakiyev
Maksim Bakiyev, is a Kyrgyz businessman, and the youngest son of former president of Kyrgyzstan, Kurmanbek Bakiyev.
Maksim was in charge of delivering fuel to the Manas International Airport, which also hosts a US airbase[1], through Mina Corp. Maksim was appointed the head of Central Agency for Development in October of 2009. Since the overthrow he has been charged with embezzlement and abuse of power by the interim government. It is suspected that transferred about $35 million of a $300 million loan from Russia into his private bank accounts[2]. When the revolt took place, Bakiyev was headed to the US for a series of meetings in Washington[3].
On June 14, 2010 Maksim was arrested in the UK when he landed at Farnborough Airport in Hampshire in a privately hired jet. [4] The interim Kyrgyz government is demanding his extradition. Kyrgyz deputy Prime Minister Almazbek Atambayev, claims that the 2010 inter-ethnic riots in south Kyrgyzstan were paid for with $10 million from Bakiyev’s pocket.