Emma Farge: Mukhtar Ablyazov

Mukhtar Ablyazov: GENEVA/ZURICH - The Swiss authorities are interrogating the extended family of Mukhtar Ablyazov, a Kazakh oligarch arrested last week in France on fraud charges after 18 months on the run, and have effectively frozen some assets, a prosecutor said. , according to Reuters. The latest investigation into the family of Ablyazov, who is accused of embezzling $6 billion by his former Kazakh bank BTA in English courts, comes as the 50-year-old billionaire dissident is held in France facing extradition to Ukraine or Russia. By Emma Farge and Martin de Sa'Pinto A Swiss prosecutor said Kazakhstan had accused Swiss-based Viktor Khrapunov, a former Kazakh government minister, mayor and father-in-law of Ablyazov's eldest daughter Madina - along with his wife Leila - of using public money for property investments. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.