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Kazakhstan, Stati settle after protracted legal dispute

The government of Kazakhstan and Moldovan businessman Anatolie Stati have ended a lengthy legal battle that at one point saw the assets of the Kazakh sovereign fund frozen in the West, the justice ministry said on Tuesday.

16 July, 2024

Death of president corrupted by oil

Debra Laprevott as FBI Special Agent in 1998 was investigating case related to extortion schemes by Nigerian President Sani Abacha.

06 July, 2024

President of NRGI on contracts’ transparency

Suneeta Kaimal, President and CEO of Natural Resources Governance Institute stated during International Anticorruption Governance Institute in Washington D.C., USA that mandatory disclosure of subsoil use contracts is promoted as a global rule around the world.

26 June, 2024

Asset recovery confiscation procedures by US Department of Justice

Discussing with Mary Butler, Chief of International Unit at Money Laundering and Asset Recovery Section of US Department of Justice, how US Government returns dirty money to various countries of origin.

25 June, 2024

Balance between transparency and private interests

Do we have to choose comfort in balance between legal interests of transparency and private capital? This is the question I asked Peter Maurer, President of Basel Institute of Governance.

19 June, 2024

Return of £829,500 to Republic of Mozambique confirmed

Jersey's Attorney General and the Vice-Attorney General of Mozambique have today signed a Memorandum of Understanding to return over £829,500 to the Republic of Mozambique.

22 May, 2024

Firm’s partnership with Debitura

We are excited to announce our new partnership with Debitura, a leading global platform in debt recovery.

17 May, 2024

Press Release: OpenSecrets director of operations advances transparency in Kazakhstan

In a groundbreaking initiative, OpenSecrets Director of Operations Greg Schneider traveled to Kazakhstan in November 2023 to collaborate with Community Exchange Program fellow Nazerke Batyrbek.

14 December, 2023

The Head of State signed the Law «On the return of illegally acquired assets to the state»

In accordance with the norms of the law, the return mechanisms will be applied to those implicated in large-scale corruption and oligopoly groups that have colluded with persons who have administrative and authoritative resources (connections, influence).

18 July, 2023

United States Repatriates Over $20 Million in Assets Stolen by Former Nigerian Dictator

The Department of Justice announced today that it has transferred over $20.6 million to the government of the Federal Republic of Nigeria (Nigeria) in accordance with an Aug. 23 agreement between the governments to repatriate assets the United States forfeited that were traceable to the kleptocracy of former Nigerian Dictator General Sani Abacha and his co-conspirators.

17 November, 2022

What can we expect from Tokayev’s «New Kazakhstan»?

On 8th November Royal Institute of International Affairs (Chatham House) invited Chairman of the Board at Transparency International Kazakhstan to discuss in London very important topics of the coming changes in Kazakhstan including prospects of asset recovery process.

11 November, 2022

Vulture or venture capital?

The term "private equity" (PE) is frequently misunderstood, and following the global financial crisis, the misunderstandings associated with this term have become further exaggerated.

04 October, 2021

A person who has read a lot of BOOKS is a very dangerous person. Seven wives of B. Momyshuly. Mistakes of Mukhtar Auezov

You will receive interesting information about Auezov, Abai, Baurzhan Momyshuly, Aristotle, Russian literature. We are mainly talking about Kazakh and world literature. We think you will be interested, be sure to try it.

17 November, 2019