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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..

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 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..

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..

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..

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..

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..

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..

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..

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..

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..

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..

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..

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..

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..

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..

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..

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..

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..

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..

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..

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..

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 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..

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..

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..

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..

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..

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..

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..