Something new has appeared in Akorda’s story explaining who had orchestrated the January events in Kazakhstan. It turns out former Chief of the NSC RK Karim Masimov was acting with support of Washington and London...
We are continuing the story of how, in 2006-2007, two foreign investors arrived in the Kazakh uranium extraction industry – Japan’s Marubeni Corporation and offshore Swinton Investment and Finance S.A. registered in the British Virgin Islands...
The demand to nationalize certain large business-structures controlled by Nursultan Nazarbayev’s relatives and allies is one of the landmark features of the “New Kazakhstan”. Even those who once occupied serious governmental posts are talking about it...
We are continuing the story about how a Japanese investor, the Marubeni Corporation, came into the Kazakh uranium industry and who benefited from the business-operation NAK Kazatomprom conducted in 2006-2007...
We are continuing project “Unmasking Nazarbayev”. This time, we will talk about how offshore Energy Asia (BVI) Limited became the owner of shares in two NAK Kazatomprom-affiliated companies of which it then disposed for a solid price of half a billion dollars...