Russia sentences fugitive Kazakh banker Ablyazov in absentia to 15 years
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NUR-SULTAN (TCA) — A Russian court has sentenced Mukhtar Ablyazov, the fugitive former head of Kazakhstan’s BTA Bank and an opposition politician, to 15 years in prison in absentia on embezzlement charges he has denied, RFE/RL's Kazakh Service reported.
