Merkel said that the media misinterpreted his previous statement and he wanted to provide more details on the status of Alma Shalabayeva, Mukhtar Ablyazov’s wife.
The case was initiated over use of a fake passport and she was given a non-custodial sentence. This is a solved issue: first deputy Prosecutor General of Kazakhstan.
The wife of former BTA Bank chairman Mukhtar Ablyazov, Alma Shalabayeva, is now staying in Kazakhstan under the written pledge not to leave the country.
Pursuing the lawsuits filed by BTA Bank against its former head Mukhtar Ablyazov, the London High Court has expanded the list of his assets and companies banned from any transactions.
According to the Minister, Kazakhstan has a right to defend its reputation against media campaigns run by the exile ex banker Mukhtar Ablyazov who is deliberately tarnishing the nation’s image in the media.
It is difficult to imagine a party to commercial litigation who has acted with more cynicism, opportunism and deviousness towards court orders than Mr Ablyazov: Court of Appeals.
Addleshaw Goddard law firm representing former head of Kazakhstan's BTA Bank Mukhtar Ablyazov applied for London High Court’s judge Nigel Teare to recuse himself but failed.
Cyprus court sentenced British citizen Paul Kythreotis, an accomplice of the former chairman of BTA Bank Mukhtar Ablyazov, to jail for contempt of court.
46 criminal cases have been initiated in Kazakhstan by a special prosecutor against Mukhtar Ablyazov who is accused of siphoning off over $5 billion out of BTA Bank.