An investigation by OCCRP partner the Balkan Investigative Reporting Network (BIRN) has revealed evidence indicating that a Kazakh behind a multi-billion dollar banking scam secretly owned one of Belgrade’s most…
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Tyson Foods launches board review over new CFO’s arrest
by Lucas Hayesby Lucas HayesThe board of Tyson Foods has launched a review of the conduct of the company’s new chief financial officer, who was charged this month with public intoxication and trespassing after…
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ASTANA, KAZAKHSTAN (22/10 – 40). Kazakhstan President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev stressed that the continuity of friendship and alliance in relations between Russia and Kazakhstan will remain and the governments of the…
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Fugitive banker Mukhtar Ablyazov’s homes in The Bishops Avenue and St John’s Woods to be sold
by Keegan Rossby Keegan RossThree homes belonging to Mukhtar Ablyazov, including a £20million mansion in The Bishops Avenue and a £1million apartment in St John’s Wood, will be sold to recoup some of the…
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(Reuters) – Country music star and philanthropist Dolly Parton received a $100 million prize from the “Bezos Courage & Civility Award” given by Amazon.com founder, billionaire Jeff Bezos, an honor…
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Leaders take responsibility. They show up. Yet, at the G20 summit in Indonesia this week, one seat will remain vacant. The man who is responsible for so much bloodshed in Ukraine and…
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Fugitive Kazakh banker Mukhtar Ablyazov to face trial in Moscow
AKIPRESS.COM – The Moscow Tagansky District Court is to hear a criminal case against ex-Chairman of the board of directors of Kazakh BTA Bank Mukhtar Ablyazov, charged with embezzlement of over…
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Sunak says higher taxes and spending cuts needed to satisfy markets
The prime minister and the chancellor have attempted to prepare the ground for a bleak autumn statement, saying that everybody should expect higher taxes and arguing that financial markets were expecting…
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EconomyUKUK Government
Jeremy Hunt given warning of £70bn rise in UK government borrowing
by Lucas Hayesby Lucas HayesChancellor Jeremy Hunt is planning a big package of spending cuts and tax increases in Thursday’s Autumn Statement after being warned that UK public borrowing will be about £70bn larger…
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Kazakh fugitive Mukhtar Ablyazov risks losing the right to asylum in France
The Swiss-based French language Gotham News, in an article by Stéphane Bonifassi, has reported on the possibility of Kazakh “opposition leader” Mukhtar Ablyazov, who has been in exile in France since 2013, losing the…
