The Kremlin and Kazakhstan allegedly have compromising material on Donald Trump, a former KGB officer claims
A former KGB officer and former head of Kazakhstan's security services claims that both the Kremlin and the authorities in Astana have compromising material on US President Donald Trump. The claims belong to Alnur Mussaiev, who was active in the KGB structures in Moscow in the 1980s and who later headed the Kazakh security services.
Alnur Mussaiev was active in the KGB structures in Moscow in the 80s/PHOTO: Facebook
In a February 6 interview with Ukrainian channel Espreso TV, Mussaiev repeated an allegation he has made publicly for several years, according to which Russian services have a file of compromising video material taken during Donald Trump's stay at the Ritz-Carlton hotel in Moscow in 2013. Trump was then in the Russian capital for the Miss Universe pageant, long before his first bid for the US presidency.
This time, Mussaiev added that Kazakhstan would also have come into possession of the same materials. He claimed that Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) had video recordings, allegedly of sexual content, from Trump's stay at the Ritz-Carlton hotel, and copies of them were also in the archives of Kazakhstan's National Security Committee (KNB).
According to the former official, these materials would have been used by Karim Massimov, then head of the KNB, during a meeting with US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson held in the United States in October 2017.
Asked how Kazakhstan would have come into possession of the alleged recordings, Mussaiev explained that the events related to the Miss Universe pageant in Moscow took place both in the Crocus City complex, owned by the Russian-Azeri businessman Aras Agalarov, and at the Ritz-Carlton hotel, which, according to Mussaiev, would have belonged and would still belong to the Kazakh oligarch Bulat Temuratov, close to the former president Nursultan Nazarbaev. “Everything that was filmed at the Ritz belonged to the Kazakhs,” he claimed.
Mussaiev also claimed that the Russian services would have used video surveillance systems in the hotel rooms, and the materials would have later reached the Kazakh security services through Temuratov.
In 2017, the authorities in Astana allegedly tried to blackmail Trump
The former head of the Kazakh services also stated that in 2017, the authorities in Astana would have tried to use these materials as leverage to improve relations with the Trump administration. According to Mussaiev, however, the attempt would have had the opposite effect, and subsequent political events in Kazakhstan – including the violent protests of 2022 and the arrest of Karim Massimov – would have been influenced by this situation.
In his opinion, Russian President Vladimir Putin would have intervened decisively for Massimov to become the main scapegoat, considering the relevant compromising materials as “personal property”.
Mussaiev also resumed the highly controversial claim that Donald Trump was recruited by Soviet services in the 1980s under the conspiratorial name “Krasnov” while he was an American businessman in his 40s.
Suspicions of a privileged relationship between Donald Trump and the Kremlin have been around since his first presidential term. In 2017, with his installation in the White House, a report by former British intelligence agent Christopher Steele became public, containing similar allegations, including references to alleged video recordings made at the Ritz-Carlton hotel in Moscow.
Donald Trump and his supporters have consistently rejected these allegations, calling the Steele dossier a fabrication and denying any links to subordination or collaboration with Russia, which they have described as a “Russian farce”.
