Michael Dobbs, David Ottaway and Sharon LaFraniere
Insider Linked to Payments to Foreign Officials
Insider Linked to Payments to Foreign Officials
A DECADE ago, James H. Giffen was just another of the scores of American businessmen who trudged the dreary corridors of Soviet economic ministries, shopping press releases through dark Moscow winters to promote business deals for United States companies.
After the Kazakhstan Government asked the Swiss to look into foreign bank accounts held by one of the opponents of the Kazakhstan President, the Swiss wound up freezing an account kept for the benefit of the President himself.