Daniyar Nazarbayev and fiancee Nooryana Najwa.NEW YORK: The fiancé of Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak's daughter was caught conning his way into Columbia University, reported The New York Times.

Daniyar Nazarbayev - whose stepfather is the brother of Kazak President Nursultan Nazarbayev - landed at the college using “fraudulent and fabricated” paperwork from a high school he didn’t actually attend, the court papers say.

According to the report, Daniyar, 24, allegedly claimed he had graduated from a high school in Kazakhstan when applying into the US University.

He actually went to high school in Switzerland - and never graduated, sources said.

Even Daniyar’s influential last name isn’t real, the court papers say.

The report said that his actual surname is Kesikbayev. Meanwhile, his mother, Maira, allegedly had his birth certificate changed after she married Bolat Nazarbayev in 2001.

The marriage was annulled last year.

Daniyar graduated from Columbia in 2010.

According to the report, a knowledgeable source said that the allegations were reported to Columbia but that it was unclear whether school officials had taken action.

Daniyar’s name is still in the school’s alumni directory.

A Columbia spokesman refused to comment when contacted by The New York Times.

Media reports said that Najib had spent RM1 million when he visited Kazakhstan.

The amount spent during the prime minister's two-day visit was revealed by the forein ministry in the Dewan Rakyat in October last year.

The allegations against Daniyar were part of Bolat’s suit against Maira and her son in Manhattan Supreme Court, where he has accused them of taking advantage of his trust to swipe the Plaza pad and help themselves to two other multimillion-dollar apartments on Wall Street.

Bolat says he has discovered that Maira has had several aliases - and that she’s wanted by Interpol and Kazakh authorities for crimes including kidnapping and extortion.

But Maira, 50, now lives in her son’s condo at The Plaza, a four-bedroom, 4,000-square-foot apartment with 3 1/2 bathrooms. It has been listed as a US$68,000-a-month rental.

The New York Post said she was unable to be reached for comment. There was no phone number for the apartment, and The New Post was not allowed by Plaza security to knock on her door last week.

Daniyar, meanwhile, is missing.

In court filings, Bolat’s lawyers said they have searched for him in five countries - including Malaysia, where he’s engaged to the prime minister’s daughter, Nooryana Najwa, whom a source said he met at Columbia.

Bolat had been looking to buy a New York apartment in 2008, and Maira and Daniyar got him to give them power of attorney so they could close the deal without him present.

The suit says Daniyar was supposed to put the apartment in his stepdad’s name but added his mom’s. About eight months later, she sold it to Daniyar for US$1, court papers say.