Raatbek Sanatbayev
Raatbek Sanatbayev (7 May 1969 – 8 January 2006 in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan) was a Kyrgyz Greco-Roman wrestler who competed in the Men's Greco-Roman 82 kg at the 1996 Summer Olympics and the Men's Greco-Roman 85 kg at the 2000 Summer Olympics. He won the bronze medal at the 1999 World Championships, and won the Asian Championship in 1999 and 2000, silver medals in the 1995 and 1997 Asian Championships and 1994 and 1998 Asian Games, and a bronze medal at the 1996 Asian Championships.
After retiring from the sport, he was running to become the head of the Kyrgyz Olympic Committee, recently vacated after the murder of Bayaman Erkinbayev[1] the previous September. But on 8 January 2006, while Sanatbayev was getting out of a car near a shopping center, two men attacked him, with one shooting him in the head.[2] He died in the hospital. , the National Security Service chief for organized crime, was arrested for the murder within a few weeks, then released and eventually acquitted.[3] Two other suspects were arrested on 2 February. But finally, on 16 April, it was announced that Kuban Jodoshev, who was allegedly responsible for seven murders including Sanatbayev's, was killed during a special police operation in Bishkek.[4]
Sanatbayev had been outspoken in his criticism of fellow-candidate, , former boxer, businessman, and the head of the Kyrgyzstan Fencing Federation, who was at the time on trial for murder [5], later acquitted. Akmatbaev went on to run for parliament in April - he won the election but was not seated because of his alleged criminal ties - when on 14 May he was also murdered [6].[7].
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- Raatbek Sanatbayev at United World Wrestling
- Raatbek Sanatbayev at Olympedia
- 1969 births
- 2006 deaths
- Wrestlers at the 1996 Summer Olympics
- Wrestlers at the 2000 Summer Olympics
- Kyrgyzstani male sport wrestlers
- Assassinated Kyrgyzstani politicians
- People murdered in Kyrgyzstan
- People murdered by Russian-speaking organized crime
- Kyrgyzstani gangsters
- Asian Games medalists in wrestling
- Wrestlers at the 1998 Asian Games
- Wrestlers at the 1994 Asian Games
- Male murder victims
- Medalists at the 1994 Asian Games
- Medalists at the 1998 Asian Games
- Asian Games silver medalists for Kyrgyzstan
- Olympic wrestlers of Kyrgyzstan
- Deaths by firearm in Kyrgyzstan