On 6 April 2018, the US Government imposed new sanctions against Russian businessmen and government officials. One of them, Andrey Kostin, reacted furiously. Kostin is…
Gazprom is Russia’s giant company in the field of extraction, production, transport, and sale of natural gas. It is a major player on the global…
[The graphic above is from the Dutch broadcaster, Zembla, that shows Mukhtar Ablyazov, a fugitive Kazakh banker, former Almaty Mayor Viktor Khrapunov, and their children,…
In August 2017, Fluxys CEO Pascal De Buck told Belgian media that the participation of Fluxys, Snam and Enagas in TAP pipeline project might give…
Fluxys, one of the bidders for a 66 percent stake in DESFA, Greece's state-owned gas network operator, is Russian Novatek’s key partner in Europe. Novatek,…
In late December 2004, the owner and CEO of BTA Bank, Yerzhan Tatishev, went on a hunting trip. Back then, BTA Bank had already become…
The Kazakh oligarch Mukhtar Ablyazov, and the president of the Kazakhgate commission in the Belgian Parliament, Dirk Van der Maelen, made a deal: Ablyazov is…
A curious scandal titled “Kazakhgate” keeps reappearing in Belgium. The first one started in late 1990s, and involved the Belgian company Tractebel. The second one…
In 2008, Oleg Deripaska was Russia’s richest man, with a fortune estimated by Forbes at around 28 billion dollars. The financial crisis almost took him…
According to Forbes, in 2015 Bulat Utemuratov was the richest man in Kazakhstan, with a combined fortune of 2.6 billion dollars. Utemuratov built his fortune…