A former KGB official and chief of Kazakh intelligence, who claimed that Donald Trump was recruited by the KGB, now says that Kazakhstan tried to use compromising video materials to blackmail the White House leader.
Both the Kremlin and Kazakhstan possess compromising video materials incriminating American President Donald Trump, according to Alnur Mussayev, the former chief of security services in Kazakhstan, who was a KGB officer in Moscow in the 1980s, writes Kiev Post.
In an interview given on Friday to the Ukrainian television station Espreso, Mussayev reiterated a claim he has publicly expressed for several years - that there is a Kremlin dossier with compromising video materials from Trump's stay at the Ritz-Carlton hotel in Moscow in 2013.
Trump had visited Moscow before his first US presidential candidacy to participate in the Miss Universe contest.
In this interview, however, Mussayev added other significant details: Kazakhstan also possesses the same materials.
He reiterated the claim that the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) holds recordings, likely of a sexual nature, from Trump's stay at the Ritz-Carlton in 2013, and asserts that Kazakhstan's National Security Committee (KNB) also has these dossiers.
"These dossiers were used for blackmail by the former head of the National Security Committee, Karim Massimov, during a meeting with US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson in the United States. The meeting took place in October 2017," Mussayev said.
When asked how Kazakhstan obtained the video recording, Mussayev stated: "The event that Trump organized in Moscow, the Miss Universe contest, apparently with the participation of Aras Agalarov, a well-known Russian oligarch of Azerbaijani origin, took place both at Crocus City, owned by Agalarov, and at the Ritz Hotel, which is owned and still controlled by Bulat Temuratov, a Kazakh oligarch close to Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev. Anything filmed at the Ritz Hotel came into the possession of the Kazakhs."
"Russian special services used surveillance cameras in the rooms. The recordings reached not only the Russians but also Kazakhstan's National Security Committee through Bulat Temuratov," Mussayev added.
Then, in 2017, Mussayev explains, Kazakhstan tried to use these compromising video materials to improve its relations with the US.
"The effect was completely opposite," Mussayev said. "You probably remember the events that took place in 2022. The Kazakh people there revolted due to the deteriorating material conditions. Some buildings were destroyed. Russia sent its Pskov division to ensure security. Most importantly, there was a conflict between Nazarbayev and Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, the new president. And, for some reason, Karim Massimov, the head of KNB, was blamed," he emphasized.
Mussayev added that in his opinion, "Vladimir Putin influenced this situation so that the main victim would be Karim Massimov, who tried to use the compromising material that Putin actually considered his personal property."
Trump, recruited by the KGB
In a Facebook post on February 18, 2018, the former chief of Kazakh intelligence, now residing in Vienna, Austria, wrote:
"Donald Trump is caught in the FSB's trap and swallows the bait deeper and deeper. Based on my operational work experience in KGB-KNB (the Kazakh successor to the KGB), I can confidently say that Trump belongs to the category of ideally recruitable individuals."
In a subsequent Facebook post from February 2025, Mussayev attempted to clarify Trump's often confusing desire to please Putin: "In 1987, I worked in the 6th Directorate of the Soviet KGB in Moscow," Mussayev wrote, explaining how "the most important activity was recruiting businessmen from capitalist countries."
"That year, our administration recruited a 40-year-old businessman from the United States, Donald Trump, under the pseudonym 'Krasnov'," he said.
Since his first presidential term, Trump has been suspected of being a strong supporter of Putin and Russia.
In 2017, just as Trump was taking office after defeating Hillary Clinton in the presidential elections, a report compiled by former British intelligence agent Christopher Steele came to light.
The document, initially commissioned by Trump's Republican opponents and later taken over by the Democratic opposition, contained the same accusations referenced by Mussayev - notably, videos of Trump with a prostitute at the Ritz-Carlton hotel in Moscow.
Trump and his supporters dismissed the "Steele dossier" and labeled it as "fabrication."