As a student, Maksim worked in a consulting firm, specialized in investment into emerging markets in Central Asia and the Middle East.

[7] A senior Kyrgyz official warned that the interim government would consider shutting down the U.S. Manas airbase if Britain refuses to hand him over.

On 12 October 2012, Bakiyev was arrested in London by UK extradition officers on the request of U.S. authorities, who want to question him for alleged involvement in fraud.

[12] In May 2010, an audio recording[13] was posted anonymously on YouTube with a caption identifying the voices as those of Maxim and his uncle Janish Bakiyev.

[15] Kyrgyz Deputy Prime Minister Almazbek Atambayev, claims that the 2010 inter-ethnic riots in south Kyrgyzstan were paid for with $10 million from Bakiyev's pocket.