ASTANA (TCA) — Kazakhstan authorities say they will continue their efforts to prosecute fugitive banker Mukhtar Ablyazov and his associates despite his release from custody in France, RFE/RL’s Kazakh Service reports.
In a statement issued on December 14, Kazakhstan’s Prosecutor-General’s Office said that Ablyazov had been charged with embezzlement, organizing a criminal group, illegally obtaining other people’s property, financial mishandling, money laundering, and abuse of office.Ablyazov was released from a French jail on December 9 after France’s highest administrative court, the Council of State court, canceled an order on his extradition to Russia, saying the extradition request had been made for …read more
Source: The Times of Central Asia
