Nadezhda Tokayeva

Nadezhda Davydovna Tokayeva (, ; born 23 January or 27 September 1958) is the ex-wife of the second president of Kazakhstan, Kassym-Jomart Tokayev.

Early life and education Tokayeva was born in Nizhny Tagil in Russia's Sverdlovsk Oblast.

In 1998, she and her son Timur opened a Credit Suisse bank account, even though she qualified as a politically exposed person, which at its height in 2005 contained $1.5 million. After her husband became director-general of the United Nations’ Geneva office, the account was closed in 2012, and the family opened offshore companies in the British Virgin Islands, with $5 million in assets plus properties in Geneva and Moscow at $7.7 million.