Exclusively “Conditions, contracts, big budget!” »The Romanian who played in Kazakhstan, about the” shock “produced by Kairat Almaty + the chief of the club, arrested for misappropriation!
Article by Daniel Scorpie, Remus Dinu – published on Wednesday, August 27, 2025, 00:41 / Updated Wednesday, August 27, 2025 00:51
Kairat Almaty's resonant performancewho eliminated Celtic for a premiere qualification in the Champions League group, does not necessarily surprise Ioan Mera, 38, former stop at Polytechnic Timișoara, Romanian footballer has evolved in the Kazakhstan championship, at FC Taraz.
Questioned by the Sports Gazette, the former captain of the Banatians He drew a few brief ideas about Kairat Almaty and the characteristics of the club that challenged all the opposing heels, managing to eliminate a team ten times better listed!
Ioan Mera, who evolved for FC Taraz between 2015 and 2017, accounting for 57 matches and four goals for the Kazakh club, says they “brought good players to them in the championship, now increased the value of the internal championship. And when I was good teams.
First of all, the city is very fine! They have good training conditions … The stadium is small, but beautiful. There are big contracts for players, they have a big budget. About all their teams play on the synthetic and start the season in March, ”says Mera, who had previously relying on a unique experience at Aladikavkaz
Ioan Mera has evolved for two seasons in Kazakhstan/ Photo source: Facebook
The man at Kairat's forehead was arrested and charged with misappropriation
Qairat Sovetauly Boranbaev (58 years old), the current chairman of the Kazakstan National Paralympic Committee, is the one who runs FC Kairat.
In 2023 he owned a fortune of $ 590 million, being on the forbes top 50 influential entrepreneurs in Kazakhstan. Kairat has been involved in various business projects, from oil and gas, Kaztransgas, Intergas Central Asia and Kazrosgas, to real estate and retail, has a participation in Essential Mall and Essential Tower, Karaganda Pharmaceutical Cluster, fitness centers.
The stadium on which the matches on their own ground Kairat Almaty plays
His interests included about thirty business activities.
On March 17, 2022, Boranbayev was arrested and charged with misappropriation of some large amounts in the public sector.
During the investigation, many athletes, musicians and famous filmmakers testified in support of Kairat. But, on March 31, 2023, the Astana Court was sentenced to 8 years in prison and ordered the confiscation of his goods. He paid 112 million euros to Kazakh state and numerous properties were confiscated.
As a different fact, the daughter of the Kairat boss is married to a nephew of the president of the country!
Here the champions league borders will move
Kairat Almaty is worth only 12 million euros, but will play for the first time at the “rich” table in the Champions League
The small band from Kazakhstan, with the lot valued by the specialized site Transfermarkt at 12 million euros, obtained the tickets for the most important competition in Europe on Tuesday evening. Kairat Almaty eliminated Celtic's breaks after 0-0 in both sleeves and 3-2 at the break.
Kairat Almaty is only the second team in Kazakhstan that exceeds the league preliminary barrier to evolve at the next level. Only Astana can boast a similar performance in 2015.
Kairat, the champion in Titre in Kazakhstan, is currently in the 3rd place in the internal championship, with 43 points after 20 stages. It started in the Champions League still in round 1! He eliminated Olimpija Ljubljana, 1-1 in Slovenia and 2-0 in Kazakhstan. He lost with Kups, 0-2, but miraculously returned to return and imposed 3-0. In the third round he succeeded the surprise and passed Slovan Bratislava.
Kairat holds multiple headlines and internal cups: 4 champion titles (1992, 2004, 2020, 2024), 10 cups and 3 superloads.
The stadium on which the matches on their own field dispute has a capacity of 23,804 seats. The striker Dastan Satpaev is the best player, 1.8 million euros.
