Another look at Nurusultan Nazarbayev

So, I did a bit more reading into Kazakhstan President Nazarbayev, the man pushing for his country to become a global uranium fuel bank for Iran, among other countries.

Paraphrasing from a 2007 BBC profile on the man.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/4489174.stm

• He is perceived to have concentrated power in his hands and those of his family, to have suppressed the opposition, and to have failed to deliver democratic and fair elections.
• He pushed through reforms that granted him unlimited Presidential terms.
• In 2006, he announced his belief that Kazakhstan will become one of the world's 50 most developed countries and one of the world's top 10 oil exporters in the next seven years.

Paraphrasing from his Wikipedia profile.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nursultan_Nazarbayev

• Transparency International ranked Kazakhstan 124th in its list of countries by corruption in 2004 with a score of 2.2 (on a scale of 0-10 with 0 indicating a "highly corrupt" state).
• He is believed to have transferred at least $1 billion worth of oil revenues to his private bank accounts in other countries and his family controls many other key enterprises in Kazakhstan.
• Nazarbayev has exerted effort to highlight his Muslim heritage and apparently shares a strong "religious and cultural" bond with Ahmadinejad. In a recent announcement of a railway link, Nazarbayev expressed religious solidarity with Iran, as he was quoted as saying, "Today I will pay a visit to Turkmenistan where we will agree on the construction of a railway through Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan to Iran with access to the Persian Gulf. This will bring us closer to our Muslim brothers."