Mouans-Sartoux: President Nursultan Nazarbayev

President Nursultan Nazarbayev: Ablyazov was arrested in the village of Mouans-Sartoux about eight kilometres north of Cannes in southern France, a police source said. Ablyazov, 50, denies allegations he says are designed to rob him and eliminate him as a rival to Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev, according to The Star. He has said his life has been in danger since he left Kazakhstan and he feared for his safety in a British jail and CANNES, FRANCE Mukhtar Ablyazov, a Kazakh businessman accused of embezzling $6 billion from his former bank, BTA, has been arrested on the French Riviera, two sources said on Wednesday. He fled the oil-rich Central Asian state after BTA, the bank he once controlled, was nationalized and declared insolvent in 2009. A former government minister, he won political asylum in Britain in 2011. He left the U.K. in 2012 after being sentenced to jail for contempt of court and has been in hiding ever since. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.