Monthly Archive

2018

Welcome to our Archives page. On this page you will find a total of 195 of our articles broken down into Months and Years.
Money-laundering crackdown on public schools and law firms
Corruption!
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Money-laundering crackdown on public schools and law firms

Estate agents, high street solicitors and accountants who facilitate about £100bn of money-laundering in the UK but are failing to report suspicious activity face a crackdown under a government drive ... read more..
Jewellery linked to £16m Harrods woman seized
Corruption!
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Jewellery linked to £16m Harrods woman seized

The jewellery seized by officers: A diamond cluster and bar necklace, a magic Alhambra bracelet, a diamond Panthere pendant and a sapphire and ruby serpent pendantNCAThe 49 items of jewellery were sei... read more..
Who Will Run Post-Nazarbayev Kazakhstan?
Events and opinions
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Who Will Run Post-Nazarbayev Kazakhstan?

Who will run Kazakhstan after President Nursultan Nazarbayev, its current and only leader, passes from the political scene? Nazarbayev, who has held the presidency since the formation of the indepe... read more..
KAZAKHSTAN: Ever harsher jailings for religious talks
Events and opinions
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KAZAKHSTAN: Ever harsher jailings for religious talks

In April 2017 Kazakhstan jailed Kuanysh Bashpayev for later banned Islamic talks. Now Galymzhan Abilkairov, one of two who posted some of the talks online before the ban, has been jailed for seven yea... read more..
The Unexplained Wealth Order legislation and London’s financial aristocracy
Corruption!
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The Unexplained Wealth Order legislation and London’s financial aristocracy

Zamira Hajiyeva, the wife of former Azerbaijani state banker Jahangir Hajiyev, is the first person to be investigated by Britain’s National Crime Agency (NCA) under an Unexplained Wealth Order (UWO). ... read more..
Kazakhstan’s uranium giant to list in London
Economy
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Kazakhstan’s uranium giant to list in London

No firm date has been set for the IPO, however Kazakhstan’s wholly state-owned uranium mining giant is capitalizing on high prices for its wares by announcing plans to list on the London Stock Exch... read more..
Citizens of Kazakhstan are just one click away from jail
Events and opinions
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Citizens of Kazakhstan are just one click away from jail

Online grumbling can lead to long periods of imprisonment As the World's largest landlocked country and surrounded by a sea of authoritarianism, Kazakhstan goes to extraordinary lengths to put... read more..
Shell Said to Drop Plan to Buy Stake in Kazakh State Oil Company
Economy
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Shell Said to Drop Plan to Buy Stake in Kazakh State Oil Company

Royal Dutch Shell Plc dropped plans to purchase a stake in KazMunayGas National Co. after a due diligence process that included discussions about the risk of corruption at the Kazakh state oil company... read more..
Kazakhstan's Next Political Crisis
Events and opinions
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Kazakhstan's Next Political Crisis

Nursultan Nazarbayev wants to remain an influential power broker in the country if and when he decides to step down. In June 2018, the speaker of Kazakhstan’s parliament, Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, “ d... read more..
#OpenDialogFoundation – Open for business…especially if you’re a billionaire fraudster
Events and opinions
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#OpenDialogFoundation – Open for business…especially if you’re a billionaire fraudster

Any investigation into the Open Dialog Foundation will have to focus on its links to serious economic crimes in Moldova and Kazakhstan, say critics of the human rights organization, writes James Hipwe... read more..
Banker's wife may lose property worth millions after UK court ruling
Special projects
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Banker's wife may lose property worth millions after UK court ruling

Failure by ‘Mrs A’ to explain source of wealth could result in civil proceedings to seize it The wife of a foreign banker faces losing UK property worth millions of pounds unless she can explain th... read more..
Telia to Pay US$ 965 Million to Resolve Karimova Bribery Case
Corruption!
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Telia to Pay US$ 965 Million to Resolve Karimova Bribery Case

Nordic telecommunications firm Telia Company will pay the U.S. Department of Justice, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and Dutch and Swedish regulators US$ 965 million to resolve bribery allega... read more..
Kazakhstan: Police in capital move to five-star hotel
Special projects
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Kazakhstan: Police in capital move to five-star hotel

Police in the capital of Kazakhstan have decided to give themselves a serious upgrade by moving from their dingy old offices into a five-star hotel. Interior Minister Kalmukhanbet Kasymov told repo... read more..
Kazakhstan’s invisible children
Special projects
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Kazakhstan’s invisible children

In Kazakhstan, children with special educational needs and disabilities are kept out of sight and out of mind. For most Kazakh citizens, children with special educational needs and disabilities (SE... read more..
UK Urges Private Schools to Help Crackdown on Money Laundering
Corruption!
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UK Urges Private Schools to Help Crackdown on Money Laundering

Private schools in the UK have been urged to make sure wealthy parents are not using laundered money to pay for their children’s education, The Financial Times reported. UK private schools are know... read more..
New Study at Caltech Says Politicians’ Faces Can Reveal Corruption
Corruption!
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New Study at Caltech Says Politicians’ Faces Can Reveal Corruption

Want to know if a politician is corrupt? Look at his face. At least, so says a new study published Wednesday by researchers at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) in the journal Psycho... read more..
“Eradicating Ideological Viruses” China’s Campaign of Repression Against Xinjiang’s Muslims
Events and opinions
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“Eradicating Ideological Viruses” China’s Campaign of Repression Against Xinjiang’s Muslims

China’s Campaign of Repression Against Xinjiang’s Muslims Summary The training has only one purpose: to learn laws and regulations…to eradicate from the mind thoughts about religious extremism and... read more..
#AstanaHub drives Kazakh digitization and IT development
Events and opinions
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#AstanaHub drives Kazakh digitization and IT development

Kazakhstan is making strides towards digital transformation in many areas. One of the significant moves is the Astana Hub, an international technopark of start-ups that provides multilevel support to ... read more..
Central Asia: Astana IFC – a steppe too far?
Events and opinions
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Central Asia: Astana IFC – a steppe too far?

Can Kazakhstan create an international financial centre in the middle of the steppes or is it just the latest central Asian pipe dream? No one can accuse Kazakh policymakers of lacking ambition. In... read more..
Kazakhstan plans to buy $1.2 bln of Tsesnabank loans
Events and opinions
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Kazakhstan plans to buy $1.2 bln of Tsesnabank loans

Kazakh authorities said on Friday they would buy 450 billion tenge ($1.2 billion) of agricultural sector loans from Tsesnabank in order to boost its financial strength, while the country's No.2 lender... read more..
Kazakhstan: Devaluation deflates a dispirited population
Events and opinions
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Kazakhstan: Devaluation deflates a dispirited population

The new fall of the Kazakh tenge against the US dollar has again hit the pockets and purchasing power of ordinary Kazakhstanis. We are republishing this article on the issue, written by Almaz Kumen... read more..
A new party would just be a Blairite tribute act, discredited from the start
Corruption!
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A new party would just be a Blairite tribute act, discredited from the start

Tony Blair – friend to dictators, enemy of socialist principles – wants a breakaway party. It would be a vehicle for the powerful Let us look at who Tony Blair regards as palatable and who he does ... read more..
Bribery Trial to Start Against Swedish Telecom Bosses
Corruption!
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Bribery Trial to Start Against Swedish Telecom Bosses

A massive corruption trial is to kick off on Tuesday, involving hundreds of millions of dollars in alleged bribes, top executives of Sweden's largest telecommunications company and the jet-set daughte... read more..
KAZAKHSTAN: Religious freedom survey, September 2018
Events and opinions
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KAZAKHSTAN: Religious freedom survey, September 2018

Kazakhstan restricts freedom of religion and belief, along with interlinked freedoms of expression, association, and assembly. Forum 18's survey analyses violations including increasing numbers of ... read more..
With Aral’s Death Irreversible, Central Asian Leaders Shift Focus To Setting Market Price For Water – OpEd
Events and opinions
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With Aral’s Death Irreversible, Central Asian Leaders Shift Focus To Setting Market Price For Water – OpEd

For most of the past 25 years, the issue of saving the Aral Sea has dominated all discussions of water sharing and use in Central Asia. But now that the death of that sea has become irreversible, t... read more..
Kazakh port in decline bids for slice of China trade
Economy
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Kazakh port in decline bids for slice of China trade

With the outlines of its six idle cranes obscured by thick fog and pouring rain, Kazakhstan's Caspian seaport Aktau seems an unlikely stop on China's much-hyped new silk road. But the sleepy port, ... read more..
After Cohen/Manafort, we're (still) only at the beginning of #TrumpRussia
Corruption!
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After Cohen/Manafort, we're (still) only at the beginning of #TrumpRussia

Just as a reminder of how far we’ve come, and have so much further to go in #TrumpRussia. And Mueller’s following the money is a specialty of the FBI/DoJ. Even as there’s Cohen’s recording of Tru read more..
Brian Oliver: Kazakhstan should drop potentially disastrous legal threat to weightlifting - but are they big enough to do it?
Corruption!
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Brian Oliver: Kazakhstan should drop potentially disastrous legal threat to weightlifting - but are they big enough to do it?

Headlines around the world described Ilya Ilyin as a "horse-meat powered Kazakh" after he won his second Olympic gold medal at London 2012. Ilyin had told reporters that his low-fat diet of horse read more..
Paul Manafort went to Kyrgyzstan to 'strengthen Russia's position'
Corruption!
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Paul Manafort went to Kyrgyzstan to 'strengthen Russia's position'

Investigation claims former Trump campaign chair promoted Russian interests Paul Manafort, whose work as a political consultant in Russia and Ukraine led to his conviction in a Virginia courtroom o... read more..
London Laundromat
Corruption!
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London Laundromat

A device that was meant to force rich investors to be more transparent has become the latest symptom of Britain’s addiction to secrecy and dirty money When a minister promises to bring the full for... read more..
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