Fugitive Oligarch Mukhtar Ablyazov Leaves Broken Lives In His Trail
Fugitive Oligarch Mukhtar Ablyazov by Ralph T. Niemeyer The man once described by the UK press as “the world’s richest fraudster” continues to…
Kazakhstan
Kazakhgate
by Ralph T. Niemeyer The case of the fugitive oligarch Mukhtar Ablyazov, who absconded from Kazakhstan with some $7.6 billion of funds from the…
USSR – Dead State walking?
Who really inherited the obligations from the Soviet Empire? Following the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1992, and the long awaited independence…
Manipulation Of Voter Data: Kyrgyz Government Agency Accused
In the Europe Union and the United States controversy rages over manipulation of voter data, the release by foreign powers of compromising hacked…
“Gilded Youth” – fugitive of the year
Mukhtar Ablyazov, on the run with $ 7.5 billion, must have been helped by Marta Devon One of the most colourful figures on the…
Khraponuv: Voice of Democracy – from a safe distance
The feeling of nostalgia for one’s homeland, that expatriates around the world know so well, also appears to apply to fugitive criminals on the…