Stecken im umstrittenen Media Quarter St. Marx (MQM) Gelder aus dem Steuerparadies Panama? Die ÖVP glaubt an einen Krimi und stellt Geldwäsche bei der Finanzierung in den Raum. Noch in dieser Woche bringt sie eine Anzeige gegen unbekannt ein. Im zuständigen Ressort von Renate Brauner (SPÖ) wehrt man sich gegen "das Anpatzen".
Seven of the 15 former Soviet countries have become “consolidated authoritarian regimes,” with Russian President Vladimir Putin's “naked embrace of autocracy” driving the decline, the Freedom House monitoring group said in a report released Tuesday.
Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev (L) and Russian President Vladimir Putin (R) have the delicate task of balancing ties between their respective countries.
Kazakhstan and global oil majors developing the Karachaganak gas condensate field aim to "peacefully resolve" their dispute over a production sharing agreement, Kazakhstan's Energy Ministry said on Thursday.
That includes vast chunks of central London's Baker Street, owned by a collection of offshore companies linked to Rakhat Aliyev and his family
The legal specialist Wolfgang Brandstetter has been Minister of Justice of the Republic of Austria since December 2013. Previously he acted, among other things, as defence counsel of the late businessman and Kazakh Ambassador Rakhat Aliyev.
Rakhat Aliyev enjoyed the benefits of Panama too. Large profits from the sugar businesses that he once launched in Kazakhstan were allegedly transferred to offshore accounts.
