Nazarbayev's former son-in-law found hanged in Austrian jail

Rakhat Aliyev, the Kazakh president's former son-in-law has been found dead in an Austrian jail from an apparent suicide, a court spokeswoman said on Tuesday, Reuters reported with reference to the representative of Court.

Aliyev, a former Kazakh ambassador to Austria, was charged with the murder of two bankers in 2008, a case in which Kazakhstan's two requests for extradition were denied in 2011.