Paris’s appellate court ceased to criminalize the head of the Board of Directors of Kazakhstan “Bank Turan Alem” (BTA Bank) of Mukhtara Ablyazov, hiding abroad, due to the expiration of limitations. It is reported by RIA Novosti.
“This is a big victory after all the difficulties, through which he and his family passed,” said the lawyer of a runaway banker Karim Beiluni.
Nevertheless, the decision of the French court is not final, as lawyers of BTA Bank have already filed a cassation complaint.
In 2017, the Al-Ata Court recognized Ablyazov guilty of creating a criminal community and the embezzlement of funds of BTA Bank. He was sentenced to 20 years of imprisonment with confiscation of property, although the sentence was put in the absence of the accused – he had long lived abroad. Separately, he was sentenced to a life sentence for the murder of Erzhan Tatishev business partner in 2004.