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{{Expand Kazakh|Имашев, Берік Мәжитұлы|date=June 2011}}
{{Infobox officeholder
 | name               = Berik Imashev
 | native_name        = Берік Имашев
 | native_name_lang   = kk
 | image              = Berik Imashev (12.2013).jpg
 | caption            = Imashev in 2013
 | office             = Chairman of the [[Central Election Commission (Kazakhstan)|Central Election Commission]]
 | term_start         = 13 September 2016
 | term_end           = 25 January 2022
 | president          = [[Nursultan Nazarbayev]]<br>[[Kassym-Jomart Tokayev]]
 | predecessor        = [[Quandyq Turganqulov]]
 | successor          = [[Nurlan Äbdirov]]
 | office2            = [[Ministry of Justice (Kazakhstan)|Minister of Justice]]
 | term_start2        = 20 January 2012
 | term_end2          = 13 September 2016
 | president2         = [[Nursultan Nazarbayev]]
 | primeminister2     = [[Karim Massimov]]<br>[[Serik Akhmetov]]<br>[[Bakhytzhan Sagintayev]]
 | predecessor2       = [[Rashid Tusupbekov]]
 | successor2         = [[Marat Beketaev]]
 | office3            = Member of the [[Senate of Kazakhstan]]
 | term_start3        = 23 November 2011
 | term_end3          = 20 January 2012
 | birth_date         = {{Birth date and age|1960|6|7|df=y}} 
 | birth_place        = [[Almaty|Alma-Ata]], [[Kazakh SSR]], [[Soviet Union]]
 | death_date         = 
 | death_place        = 
 | spouse             = Leila Adaibekova
 | children           = 3
 | alma_mater         = [[Moscow State University]]
}}
'''Berik Mazhituly Imashev''' ({{langx|kk|Берік Мәжитұлы Имашев}}, ''Berık Mäjitūly İmaşev''; born 7 June 1960) is a Kazakh politician, who's currently serving as the [[Security Council of Kazakhstan|Security Council]] Secretary of [[Kazakhstan]].<ref>{{cite book |title=Engaging Central Asia: the European Union's new strategy in the heart of Eurasia |last=Melvin |first=Neil J. |author2=Bhavna Dave |page=51 |year=2008 |publisher=[[Centre for European Policy Studies|CEPS]] |isbn=978-92-9079-707-4 }}</ref> He previously served as a [[Ministry of Justice (Kazakhstan)|Minister of Justice]] between 2012 and 2016.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.adilet.gov.kz/en/articles/ministers-justice|title=Ministers of Justice|publisher=Ministry of Justice of the Republic of Kazakhstan|accessdate=25 June 2018}}</ref>

==Biography==
*He was born in 1960, in [[Almaty]]. In 1982, he graduated from [[Lomonosov Moscow State University]] with a degree in law. After graduating, he worked as investigator at the prosecutor’s office of the district, investigator for particularly important cases under the Prosecutor of the [[Kazakh SSR]], prosecutor of the district, Department Head of State Prosecutor’s Office of the Republic of Kazakhstan, First Deputy Prosecutor of Almaty.
*From 1994 to 1997 he worked as Deputy Chairman of “[[Kazkommertsbank]]”, Deputy Head of State Property Management Committee of the Republic of Kazakhstan, Head of Tax Police Board – Deputy Head of Tax Committee of the Republic of Kazakhstan. From May 1997 to April 1998 he ran a private legal company.
*He was an Aide of the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan and Head of the Agency on Small Business Support from 1998 to 1999.
*From 1999 to 2000 he served as Deputy Chairman of the Bar of [[Astana]].
*He served as Head of the Agency of the Republic of Kazakhstan for Regulation of Natural Monopolies, Protection of Competition and Small Business Support from 2000 to 2001.
*He was a President of [[CJSC]] “Neftekonsalting” from 2001 to 2003.
*From 2003 to 2005 he served as Deputy Security Council Secretary of the Republic of Kazakhstan.
*He was a Chairman of JSC “Fund for the Development of Small Business” from May to October 2005.
*In October 2005 he was nominated to be Deputy Head of the Administration of the [[President of Kazakhstan]].
*In 1990, he was awarded a “Detection and Policy” Prize from Semenov International Fund, and two medals.

==Personal==
He has three children: a daughter Aida ({{langx|ru|Аида}}; b. 1984) who is married to the very wealthy [[:ru:Алиев, Нурали Рахатович|Nurali Aliyev]] who is the son of [[Rakhat Aliyev]] and [[Dariga Nazarbayeva]], a son Alzhan ({{langx|ru|Альжан}}; b. 1987), and a daughter Adiya ({{langx|ru|Адия}}; b. 1999).<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20120529153333/http://idwhoiswho.kz/node/1674 Имашев Берик Мажитович]</ref>

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