Claim: Nurlan Kapparov served in the the Soviet Army, the main land warfare uniform service branch of the Soviet Armed Forces,  from 1987 to 1989 before founding the company Accept in 1990.
Evidence: In 1991, Kapparov he founded the company Accept and from 1997 to 1999, he was the chief executive of the national company KazTransOil and oil and gas company Kazakhoil.