http://centralasia.foreignpolicyblogs.com/2007/05/24/kazakhstan-nurbank-scandal-widens/ The World Affairs Blog Network Sat, 07 Nov 2009 23:18:32 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7.1 hourly 1 http://centralasia.foreignpolicyblogs.com/2007/05/24/kazakhstan-nurbank-scandal-widens/comment-page-1/#comment-803 Central Asia » Blog Archive » Kazakhstan: missing Nurbank officials found Thu, 12 Jul 2007 15:10:52 +0000 http://centralasia.foreignpolicyblogs.com/2007/05/24/kazakhstan-nurbank-scandal-widens/#comment-803 [...] Backgrounders: I reviewed the crime with the post ”Nurbank scandal widens ” and about the bank’s changes of ownership that may have precipitated it in “Cartel ex machina“.  You can also type Nurbank into the search box at right. [...] [...] Backgrounders: I reviewed the crime with the post ”Nurbank scandal widens ” and about the bank’s changes of ownership that may have precipitated it in “Cartel ex machina“.  You can also type Nurbank into the search box at right. [...]

]]> http://centralasia.foreignpolicyblogs.com/2007/05/24/kazakhstan-nurbank-scandal-widens/comment-page-1/#comment-550 Central Asia » Blog Archive » Kazakhstan: The family dynamic Mon, 28 May 2007 14:44:20 +0000 http://centralasia.foreignpolicyblogs.com/2007/05/24/kazakhstan-nurbank-scandal-widens/#comment-550 [...] Reviewing recent events: Last week, I wrote on the Nurbank scandal and the about-face decision to investigate Mr. Aliev rather than to send him out of the country until the scandal died down.  At the time that Mr. Aliev was demoted from his Foreign Ministry position and made Ambassador to Austria, he was feeling his relative impunity well enough to a. admit that he and his wife Dariga Nazarbaeva did still own a great part of the Kazakhstan media empire, and b. to sue, for slander and libel, the wives of the men he allegedly kidnapped and tortured.  [...] [...] Reviewing recent events: Last week, I wrote on the Nurbank scandal and the about-face decision to investigate Mr. Aliev rather than to send him out of the country until the scandal died down.  At the time that Mr. Aliev was demoted from his Foreign Ministry position and made Ambassador to Austria, he was feeling his relative impunity well enough to a. admit that he and his wife Dariga Nazarbaeva did still own a great part of the Kazakhstan media empire, and b. to sue, for slander and libel, the wives of the men he allegedly kidnapped and tortured.  [...]

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