Alexei Mordashov is a Russian billionaire businessman and Putin’s friend, who is the main shareholder and chairman of Russian conglomerate Severstal. The EU blacklisted Mordashov…
The Pandora Papers investigation, which involved a consortium of some 600 journalists from a variety of global media outlets, is based on the leak of…
Oligarchs would be forbidden from financing political parties or taking part in privatisations. Top officials, including the president, prime minister and head of the central…
This is the story of a young man who married into one of Kazakhstan’s most prominent political families and was able to build a fortune…
Payments from Kazakh oligarchs lead to a complaint of suspected money laundering filed with the Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority (Finma). A Geneva-based private bank…
French producers cut off supply in protest over new law ordering Russian-made wine to be labelled as ‘champagne’. The French champagne industry group called on…
Galimzhan Yessenov enjoyed a meteoric rise in his business career after marrying into Kazakhtan’s elite but his recent divorce has seen this process swiftly reversed.…
Akhmetzhan Yessimov, the chairman of Samruk-Kazyna, has been criticised by Kazakhstan’s public accounts committee over ethical issues at the $63 billion sovereign wealth fund. Kazakhstan’s…
TUI had received state-backed loans in two tranches this year, and an additional billion to two billion euros was being discussed. The funds could come…
A Belgian judge has dismissed a bribery case brought against the former Brussels attorney general and a member of the country’s royal family, bringing to…