At the heart of the relationship between France and Kazakhstan, a thorny legal file will be at the center of the interview at the Elysee Palace on Tuesday between Emmanuel Macron and Kassym-Jomart Tokaïev, who has just been re-elected president of Kazakhstan.
It is that of the oligarch Moukhtar Abliazov, today a political refugee in France.
This engineer in nuclear physics, a graduate of the Institute of Engineering Physics in Moscow, left Kazakhstan abruptly in 2009, after leading to the bankruptcy of BTAbank, the country's largest bank, which he had chaired since 2005. The authorities of Kazakhstan accuse him of having, from 2005 to 2009, embezzled more than 7 billion dollars, via some 600 front companies housed in Luxembourg, the Seychelles and the British Virgin Islands.
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On July 31, 2013 at 1:00 p.m., a gardener left the park of the Zénith villa in Mouans-Sartoux, on the heights of Cannes, facing the Big Blue.
As he has just passed through the gate, the vehicle is attacked by…
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