A Russian court has sentenced Mukhtar Ablyazov, the fugitive former head of Kazakhstan's BTA Bank and an opposition politician, to 15 years in prison in...
He presents himself as a dissident pursued by an authoritarian regime. However, behind...
Kazakh politics plays out far from the steppe — in New York lofts and courts.
Ablyazov continued to protest his innocence, saying in court: “Everything is untrue. Everything has been fabricated in Kazakhstan. There is no...
France has granted political asylum to Kazakhstan's exiled opposition leader Mukhtar Ablyazov, according to his lawyer and a French newspaper.
Fugitive Kazakh ex-banker Mukhtar Ablyazov has appeared before French judicial authorities, a day after he was arrested in southern France.
Seven senior former Italian police and immigration officials have received prison sentences for their roles in the "unlawful" deportation of...
BTA Bank and the city of Almaty won a lawsuit in the US against Felix Sater and his companies, which helped to invest money stolen by...
Now that Kazakhstani oligarch Mukhtar Ablyazov has been apprehended, banking officials in Kazakhstan are striving to recover as much as they can of the $6...
Mukhtar Ablyazov, who is alleged to have embezzled $5bn (£3.2bn), was found guilty of lying to the court about the scale of his vast fortune.
Exiled businessman and opposition leader; founder/leader of the Democratic Choice of Kazakhstan (DCK); prominent critic of the Kazakh government.
