(16 Mar 2016) The wife and son of a Kazakh banker-turned-dissident are urging France’s Prime Minister to block his pending extradition to Russia, fearing that he will face abuses.
Mukhtar Ablyazov, a former Kazakh energy minister who turned against longtime leader Nursultan Nazarbayev and founded an opposition party, is accused of embezzling billions of US dollars from a bank he founded, BTA.
Ablyazov is at the heart of a legal saga which has lasted years and spanned several countries.
At the end, he was arrested in southern France in 2013 on embezzling allegations, and both Russia and Ukraine have requested his extradition claiming their citizens were defrauded in the collapse of the now-nationalised bank, BTA.
French Prime Minister Manuel Valls signed an extradition decree to Russia in September 2015.
Ablyazov's lawyers say Russia will hand Ablyazov to Nazarbayev.
On Friday, March 11th, Ablyazov's demand for parole was rejected.
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