Nurlan Motuev

Nurlan Motuev is a Kyrgyz politician from the Jumgal area of Naryn province, popularly nicknamed the King of Coal after seizing control of the Karakeche coal mines during 2005. One of the activists behind the 2006 revolution, he later went on trial and was jailed but rebounded to become a presidential candidate for the 2009 elections, receiving 21,724 (0.93%) votes. In October 2012 his newly formed Patriotic Movement called for the nationalization of Kyrgyzstan's mineral resources.