[3][4] Born in the village of Sokolovka in North Kazakhstan Region, Bektanov graduated from the Kiev Higher Combined Arms Command School in the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic.

From 2001–2005, he served as Head of the Operational Directorate and Training Department of the Republican Guard before studying at the Military Academy of the General Staff.

Bektanov was considered as accountable to the incident by President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev and was given a formal strict reprimand in response.

A month later, Bektanov was detained and placed under arrest on suspicion of official inaction during the state of emergency introduced in connection with mass protests.

[9] On March 9, 2023, Bektanov was convicted by the verdict of the Specialized Interdistrict Military Court for Criminal Cases dated February 24, 2023 under part 3 of Article 451 of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Kazakhstan (abuse of power), he was sentenced to imprisonment for a period of 12 years with serving his sentence in an institution of the maximum security penal system.