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Ukraine is bargaining with the EU for Mukhtar Ablyazov

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 Ukraine has shown some success in common European space and it ready to integrate further. This process is not flawless.

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Kazakhstan’s Richest Sell Almaty Airport

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TAV, a Turkish holding, completed the purchase of Almaty International Airport, Kazakhstan’s most active airport.

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Is the U.K. Finally Getting Serious About Cracking Down on Dirty Money?

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The United Kingdom has long been infamous as a money-laundering haven, with hundreds of billions of dollars in dirty money passing through its financial system just in recent years.

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Kazakhstan: Nazarbayev family’s luxury UK assets come to light

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 The ex-president's daughter and grandson hold $103 million in real estate assets in London.

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U.K. Takes Fight To Kazakhstan’s Wealthy Elite Over Unexplained ‘Billionaires’ Row’ Mansion

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A mansion owned by Nurali Aliyev, the grandson of Kazakhstan’s former President Nursultan Nazarbayev has been “frozen” by the U.K.’s High Court after the second use of a so-called ‘McMafia’ Wealth Order.

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Nurali Aliyev: the man being groomed for power

Nurali Aliyev is the grandson of dictator Nursultan Nazarbayev

Nurali Aliyev, 35, was born into a family that has ruled Kazakhstan, an oil-rich former Soviet republic in Central Asia, with an iron fist for three decades. 

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Plush London homes 'were bought with McMafia cash'

Rakhat Aliyev was accused of killling two bankers

Millions of pounds extorted by a former Kazakh police chief via “old school post-Soviet raids involving murder” were used to buy three London homes, a court was told yesterday.

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Ivanka Trump and Don Jr. 'knew they were lying' when hawking condos for Trump's SoHo building, dramatically increasing figures to lure in more buyers, new book claims

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Ivanka Trump and Donald Jr. knew they were lying when they were trying to sell off condos at their family's SoHo building back in the late 2000s, dramatically increasing sale figures in a bid to lure in more buyers, a new book claims.

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BTA Bank AO : announces launch of criminal case against Ilyas Khrapunov

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The Prosecutor's Office in Geneva is conducting a criminal case against Ilyas Khrapunov, son-in-law of BTA Bank's former owner. Khrapunov is suspected of laundering money stolen from BTA Bank. 

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Belgium’s second Kazakhgate unfolds

In 2009, after auditors at PwC identified a massive hole – more than $10 billion – in the BTA’s balance sheets, many of its bank leaders fled from Kazakhstan, settling in EU counties.

Belgium again finds itself amidst a scandal that threatens to become “Kazakhgate-II”. 

Experts of the Committee against Torture Commend Kazakhstan for Enhanced Legislation

Experts of the Committee against Torture Commend Kazakhstan for Enhanced Legislation

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Kazakh official: Not the time to resolve differences through war

Kazakh official: Not the time to resolve differences through war

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Oil majors sued by Kazakh government over billions in revenue

Oil majors sued by Kazakh government over billions in revenue

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