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Mukhtar Ablyazov just added another prison term to his already extensive collection

8th January 2021 Chris Kimble DMCA.com Protection Status

Mukhtar Ablyazov just added another prison term to his already extensive collection Pin It
Mukhtar Ablyazov

Loans and land plots, what could possibly go wrong? In fact, everything. Mukhtar Ablyazov as the owner of BTA Bank authorised his subordinate and accomplices to give out cash secured by pricey land plots in Russia. Then the magic happened.

The scheme, in short, is that the Bank gives funding to land plot owners to develop the commercial or residential property. The land plots itself served as security for the deal. Mukhtar Ablyazov, whose bank was very active at local development market, initiated the termination of the credit line. The terms are unusual in any sense: the bank got nothing. Those who took the bank’s funds get away with their land plots, their development projects and BTA’s own money. Thus BTA bank ‘lost’ around $700 million. Such generosity finds an easy and legally proven explanation: those who borrowed from the bank were close associates to the bank owners. Such were the golden years of the ‘self-service’. The stolen funds then were distributed across the network of offshore entities controlled by Mukhtar Ablyazov. His accomplices for this exact activities are established: Roman Solodchenko, Artur Trofimov, Igor Kononko, Anatoly Ereshchenko, Tatyana Paraskevich and Alexander Udovenko.

Mukhtar Ablyazov’s story of prison terms

Most of them fled abroad and are following the chief’s behaviour: they try to present the case as ‘politically motivated’. The group is sentenced in absentia: Mukhtar Ablyazov got 15 years as the king pin of the gang, others have to serve 10 years each. It’s not the first sentence of Mukhtar Ablyazov.

In Kazakhstan he was sentenced for corruption-related charges after he was dismissed from ministry of energetics. He was personally pardoned by the president – a practice quite common in Kazakhstan for those who got caught for bribes and kickbacks. Then Mukhtar Ablyazov was sentenced for lifetime for killing BTA Bank co-owner and the biggest bank embezzlement in modern history.

Mukhtar Ablyazov
Mukhtar Ablyazov
He has served a prison term in France and is wanted by the United Kingdom. Mukhtar Ablyazov have to serve 22 month of prison in GB. Ukraine and Moldavia has issued their search warrants too.

Consequences of the new court verdict for Mukhtar Ablyazov

Although the verdict is a reason to issue another Red Notice for Interpol it is unlikely course of actions. Mukhtar Ablyazov has been granted an asylum status in France thus he is protected from the extradition to Russia, Kazakhstan and the United Kingdom.

However the French prosecutors may request the case from the court and examine the arguments. If Russian prosecution authorities have done their job right and the evidence is sound Mukhtar Ablyazov may go to prison for crimes committed outside the French territory. In fact his case is already reopened in Paris and the investigation has been restarted.

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