Beauty queen’s fiancé jailed by her president uncle after proposal
The former Miss Kyrgyzstan has seen her fiancé locked up by her uncle – the country’s president – after his ’embarrassingly ostentatious’ proposal.
Sadyr Japarov was outraged by Aftandil Sabyrbekov after he used a government helicopter as part of an elaborate proposal to the president’s niece, Lazzat Nurgozhoeva, 23.
Mr Japarov immediately released a statement condemning the proposal, suggesting Ms Nurgozhoeva might ‘draw the right conclusions from this’.
However, after two weeks without apology from the new husband-to-be, the president lost patience and ordered Mr Sabyrbekov’s arrest on drug charges, The Telegraph reported.
This has come over a series of weeks when Kyrgyzstan has been ravaged by mudslides and floods which killed dozens.
The former Miss Kyrgyzstan, Lazzat Nurgozhoeva, has seen her fiancé Aftandil Sabyrbekov locked up by her uncle – the country’s president – after his ’embarrassingly ostentatious’ proposal (pictured)
Sadyr Japarov (seen) was outraged by Mr Sabyrbekov after he used a government helicopter as part of an elaborate proposal despite the country’s struggles with fatal weather conditions this month
Ms Nurgozhoeva, 23, was Miss Kyrgyzstan in 2020, and has since deleted the viral engagement clip from her social media
Over a dozen people have been killed by floods and landslides in Kyrgyzstan in recent months. Pictured: People being evacuated to safety by search and rescue teams after heavy rains in the country
As well ordering the arrest of his would-be family addition, Mr Japarov told media that Mr Sabyrbekov had not loved the former pageant star, adding he only proposed to protect himself from future arrest.
A drug conviction in Kyrgyzstan tends to result in years behind bars.
The engagement video showed the couple on a hilltop which they arrived at on a £1,500-per-hour emergency helicopter despite the country’s experience of extreme weather this month.
They walked from the chopper to a fireworks display as they looked on to the message: ‘Will you marry me?’
Kyrgyzstan’s president has made a point of cracking down on wasting public finances since he came to power through a coup in 2020, and the video soon went viral in the nation.
Ms Nurgozhoeva, who was Miss Kyrgyzstan in 2020, went on to delete the clip from her social media.
A state of emergency was declared in Kyrgyzstan’s southern city Osh earlier this month after mudslides and flooding killed at least four people, adding to over a dozen who were killed by similar weather in recent months.
