Anastasiya’s daughter united with grandmother

UNITED: Anastasiya’s mother Tatiana and daughter Luiza, March 2008. (Credit: family member)

 Rakhat Aliyev is alive and well, and living in Kazakhstan. She is now 11 years old.

A lot of people have been asking us, “What happened to little Luiza?”

We want to give Luiza her privacy, and respect the privacy of the loving family that is raising her. However, we also want to provide proof that Luiza was united with her maternal grandmother – Anastasiya’s mother, Tatyana Medvedeva.

Mrs Medvedeva provided us with a photo of her with Luiza taken in early 2008, when Anastasiya’s remains were re-buried at a Christian funeral outside Almaty, Kazakhstan.

Here is the photo, appearing in public for the first time.

Anastasiya’s mother, Mrs Medvedeva, is holding her granddaughter Luiza, who was 4-1/2 at the time.

Mrs Medvedeva gave us permission to make the photo public.

We are told by other sources that DNA tests prove that Luiza is indeed the daughter of Anastasiya Novikova and Rakhat Aliyev.

Rakhat Aliyev has never acknowledged his youngest daughter, who was born in Beirut in the summer of 2003.

To recap the story

Aliyev had had Anastasiya sent to Beirut to live in captivity so that nobody would know about Aliyev’s illicit relationship and out-of-wedlock daughter. He coerced Anastasiya to marry his cousin, Daniyar Esten.

Both lived in Beirut in an apartment owned by Aliyev’s brother-in-law, Issam Hourani, and Issam’s brother Devincci Hourani. The Houranis and Esten allegedly participated in the forced captivity and brutalization of Anastasiya in Beirut, and in the coverup that followed Anastasiya’s violent death on June 19, 2004.

After helping dispose of Anastasiya’s body in a secret grave in southern Kazakhstan, Esten sent baby Luiza to live with his parents, also in Kazakhstan. Apparently he had them believe that he was Luiza’s father.

Esten was killed in a traffic incident in Austria the following year.

The Estens later learned the truth about Luiza when Anastasiya’s broken remains were discovered in their secret grave and exhumed in the summer of 2007.

After that discovery, Anastasiya’s mother, Mrs Mevdedeva, was united with her granddaughter for the first time and met the surviving Esten family.

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