Kazakh Fugitive Banker’s Family Snatched in Italy Night Raid
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Former BTA Bank Chairman Mukhtar Ablyazov’s wife and daughter were deported to Kazakhstan from Italy on June 1 in the latest blow to the fugitive banker.
Alma Shalabayeva and Ablyazov’s 6-year-old daughter Alua were detained in a suburb of Rome during an attempt to arrest him by Italian police, the Prosecutor General’s Office in the Kazakh capital, Astana, said in a statement today. Italian authorities handed them over to Kazakhstan after determining that Ablyazov’s wife used a fake passport issued by the Central African Republic in the name of Ayan Alma, the office said.