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Kazakhstan corruption
![Nazarbayev Rants Against Offshore Holdings Nazarbayev Rants Against Offshore Holdings](https://thediplomat.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/sizes/thumbnail/thediplomat_2016-10-23_15-49-00.jpg)
Nazarbayev Rants Against Offshore Holdings
By Catherine Putz
The Kazakh president complained on national television of companies squirreling their money away abroad.
![Kazakhstan’s Dirty Laundry: Money Laundering and New York Real Estate Kazakhstan’s Dirty Laundry: Money Laundering and New York Real Estate](https://thediplomat.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/sizes/thumbnail/thediplomat.com-rtx1272i.jpg)
Kazakhstan’s Dirty Laundry: Money Laundering and New York Real Estate
By Catherine Putz
Kazakh politics plays out far from the steppe -- in New York lofts and courts.
![Kazakhstan's Renewable Energy Quest Kazakhstan's Renewable Energy Quest](https://thediplomat.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/sizes/thumbnail/thediplomat.com-1280px-wind_generators.jpg)
Kazakhstan's Renewable Energy Quest
By Eric Wheeler
Astana will face a number of practical and political issues in promoting renewable energy sources.
![How Trump Is Connected to a Kazakh Corruption Scandal How Trump Is Connected to a Kazakh Corruption Scandal](https://thediplomat.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/sizes/thumbnail/thediplomat_2016-10-19_15-31-10.jpg)
How Trump Is Connected to a Kazakh Corruption Scandal
By Casey Michel
The city of Almaty says former mayor Viktor Khrapunov stole millions and invested via shell companies in U.S. real estate.
![Kazakhstan's Anti-Corruption Drive Turns Against Opposition Kazakhstan's Anti-Corruption Drive Turns Against Opposition](https://thediplomat.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/sizes/thumbnail/thediplomat_2017-02-27_14-59-52.jpg)
Kazakhstan's Anti-Corruption Drive Turns Against Opposition
By Paolo Sorbello
Kazakhstan's renewed efforts against corruption might mask a strategy aimed to silence opposition figures and activists.
![Engines and Oil: Rolls-Royce Paid Bribes to Bring Its Business to Kazakhstan Engines and Oil: Rolls-Royce Paid Bribes to Bring Its Business to Kazakhstan](https://thediplomat.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/sizes/thumbnail/thediplomat_2017-01-20_14-53-03.jpg)
Engines and Oil: Rolls-Royce Paid Bribes to Bring Its Business to Kazakhstan
By Catherine Putz
This week Rolls-Royce agreed to pay $800 million to settle corruption investigations in the U.S., UK, and Brazil.
![Football Leaks: The Kazakh Connection Football Leaks: The Kazakh Connection](https://thediplomat.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/sizes/thumbnail/thediplomat_2017-01-03_13-02-59.jpg)
Football Leaks: The Kazakh Connection
By Paolo Sorbello
A Kazakh family is at the center of a scandal that unveiled murky deals in the global world of football.
![Bribes, Bad MPs, and Whistleblowers: Analyzing Public Perceptions of Corruption in Eurasia Bribes, Bad MPs, and Whistleblowers: Analyzing Public Perceptions of Corruption in Eurasia](https://thediplomat.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/sizes/thumbnail/thediplomat_2016-11-16_15-49-44.jpg)
Bribes, Bad MPs, and Whistleblowers: Analyzing Public Perceptions of Corruption in Eurasia
By Catherine Putz
A new report details public perceptions and experiences with corruption.
![From Almaty to Soho: Did a Kazakh Oligarch Launder Money Through a Trump Property? From Almaty to Soho: Did a Kazakh Oligarch Launder Money Through a Trump Property?](https://thediplomat.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/sizes/thumbnail/thediplomat_2016-10-19_15-31-10.jpg)
From Almaty to Soho: Did a Kazakh Oligarch Launder Money Through a Trump Property?
By Catherine Putz
A Financial Times investigation picks through the murky path from the former mayor of Almaty to Trump Soho.
![Steppe Shuffles: Kazakhstan’s Government Rearranged Steppe Shuffles: Kazakhstan’s Government Rearranged](https://thediplomat.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/sizes/thumbnail/thediplomat_2016-09-13_16-06-32.jpg)
Steppe Shuffles: Kazakhstan’s Government Rearranged
By Catherine Putz
Same faces in slightly different places: decoding Astana's new government.
![Exiled Kazakh Banker Ablyazov Linked to Serbian Investments Exiled Kazakh Banker Ablyazov Linked to Serbian Investments](https://thediplomat.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/sizes/thumbnail/thediplomat_2015-11-05_13-20-32.jpg)
Exiled Kazakh Banker Ablyazov Linked to Serbian Investments
By Casey Michel
Ablyazov, claiming political persecution, is fighting extradition from France to Russia.
![Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan, and the ‘Bribe-Factory’ Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan, and the ‘Bribe-Factory’](https://thediplomat.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/sizes/thumbnail/thediplomat_2016-04-05_20-23-45.jpg)
Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan, and the ‘Bribe-Factory’
By Casey Michel
The “biggest leak of confidential files in the history of the oil industry" exposed Unaoil's slippery backroom machinations.