Le ministère public genevois a ouvert une procédure pour blanchiment contre la famille Khrapunov, domiciliée à Genève, a appris la RTS. Confiée au procureur Jean-Bernard Schmid, l\\\'enquête porte sur l\\\'origine des fonds investis en Suisse par la famille kazakhe.

Kazakh national who claims he was tortured on Rakhat Aliyev's orders asks magistrate to order Maltese police investigate human rights violations.

A series of documents have been uncovered in France that link Gulnara Karimova, the daughter of Uzbek President Islam Karimov, with an Uzbek businessman currently detained in Switzerland as part of a money-laundering investigation.

The United States has been quietly deepening relationships in Central Asia, but in the process is embracing two authoritarian, lifetime presidents who don't have great records on human rights. The State Department has repeatedly criticized both for those records and for their generally harsh treatment of domestic opponents.

The Kazakh Opposition in Exile is protesting against Switzerland granting political asylum to the former Mayor of Almaty Viktor Khrapunov and his family. Journalistic circles have publicised the fact that the former Mayor of Almaty, Akim of the East Kazakhstan Province and Kazakh Minister for Emergencies Viktor Khrapunov and the members of his family have applied to Switzerland for political asylum as members of the opposition and campaigners for human rights.

Kazakhstan\'s President Nursultan Nazarbayev\'s former son-in-law Rakhat Aliyev – now referred to as Kazakhstan\'s Public Enemy Number One – is facing murder charges over four years after two bankers he is alleged to have slain disappeared.