Thursday, April 10, 2014

France court overturns extradition of former Kazakhstan energy minsiter

[JURIST] A French appellate court on Wednesday overturned the extradition of Mukhtar Ablyazov [BBC profile], Kazakhstan's former energy minister accused of misappropriating USD $6 billion from BTA Bank [corporate website]. In January, a French trial court in the Aix-En Province agreed [JURIST report] to extradition requests from Russia and Ukraine, both of which house BTA Bank branches, partly because France does not have an extradition agreement with Kazakhstan. In 2011 Ablyazov gained political asylum in the UK after alleging that...

Source: http://jurist.org/paperchase/2014/04/france-court-overturns-extradition-of-former-kazakhstan-energy-minsiter.php

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