WANTED MAN: THE STORY OF MUKHTAR ABLYAZOV: A Manual for Criminals on How to Avoid Punishment in the EU - Softcover

CARTWRIGHT, GARY

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1910886955 ISBN 13: 9781910886953

Publisher: Silk Road Media, 2019

Synopsis

With the tenth anniversary of his flight from the authorities in his homeland of Kazakhstan fast approaching, the raft of transnational court cases involving fugitive embezzler Mukhtar Ablyazov show no sign of abating. In a global saga which stretches from an institutional aversion to tackling kleptocracy in the United Kingdom to United States President Donald Trump’s shady business partners, the murky world of Mukhtar Ablyazov even led his family to make a pit stop in the Central African Republic to pick up diplomatic passports. Yet despite having judgements against him totalling $4.9 billion in the British courts alone, almost six years since he fled from the UK to avoid three concurrent 22-month sentences for contempt of court, Ablyazov remains a free man.   So who is this criminal mastermind, a man found to have committed ‘fraud on an epic scale’ in the UK and sentenced in absentia in his homeland of having ordered the assassination of his erstwhile business partner? A country boy turned kleptocrat, current estimates as to the total amount embezzled by Ablyazov stand at in excess of $10 billion, yet from his villa in France, Ablyazov continues to bemoan his plight to be a simple case of ‘political persecution.’ This is an argument supported by parties such as the NGO, the Open Dialog Foundation, whose activities, a report from a conference held in the European Parliament in November 2017 found, are funded by companies ‘flagged and sanctioned by the West.’

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Review:

“For those of us who have fought tirelessly for Human Rights, it feel like a punch in the stomach when someone uses mechanisms to slyly promote their own self interest.  Such action undermines the work of genuine Human Rights activists and deserves to be highlighted. I commend this book for doing just that.”

— Nikki Sinclaire
Former Member of the European Parliament
Member of the EP Committee on Human Rights 2009/14 
Member of The EP Committee on Women and gender Equality 2009/14 

“Gripping... an expose of how money talks in the EU and in individual member states. Corruption is a growing problem and as always, as this book shows, the guilty remain at large, and the taxpayer foots the bill.”

— Colin Stevens, Publisher, EU Reporter.
www.eureporter.co

About this edition

• Publisher: Silk Road Media
• Publication date: 2019
• ISBN 10: 1910886955
• ISBN 13: 9781910886953
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 124
• Editor: BLAND STEPHEN M.