THE widow of a Kazakh embassy employee yesterday appealed for investigations into her husband’s mysterious death in Cairo just before Christmas.

Aynur Moldabaeva  found Elaman Zholdasov dead in his home in the Egyptian capital on December 13. She discovered him lying flat with a ligature around his neck.

His cousin, Gulnara Pernebekova, said the body had sustained “multiple injuries,” the hands were “tied behind his back,” and a rope was “around his neck.”

Ms Moldabaeva appealed to rights organisations and the media to draw attention to her husband’s case, which, she warned, is being presented as a suicide.

She said that footprints were found and blood on the wall close to his body when it was found.

She said the prosecutor had confirmed that her husband had been with an Egyptian journalist and investor friends from Saudi Arabia the previous evening.

Calling for open and transparent investigations, she raised her fears of a cover-up.

“A person cannot kill himself in a complete lying position with so much blood near his head,” Ms Moldabaeva said.

She made an appeal to Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev to send a Kazakh team to investigate the death.