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Chairman Of Company Affiliated With Former Kazakh President's Daughter Arrested.
NUR-SULTAN -- The chairman of a company in Kazakhstan that collected hefty recycling fees from car owners across the country has been arrested on unspecified corruption charges.
Kazakhstan's Anti-Corruption Agency said on January 26 that Medet Qumarghaliev, the chairman of the Operator ROP company that is believed to be affiliated with former Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbaev's daughter, Aliya Nazarbaeva, had been arrested, along with Deputy Ecology Minister Akhmetzhan Pirimqulov.
The move comes on the same day that Kazakh lawmakers demanded an investigation into the company's operations to find out how Operator ROP had managed to run up revenues of 691.9 billion tenges ($1.58 billion) over five years.
President Qasym-Zhomart Toqaev has already ordered the government to shut down the company's operations and criticized Nazarbaev for creating "lucrative companies" and "extremely rich people."
Toqaev's statements came after anti-government protests -- spurred in part by the public's disgust with deep-rooted state corruption -- turned deadly earlier this month.
Also on January 26, Nur-Sultan city police said they had launched a probe into the death of Operator ROP Executive Director Ruslan Shamshiev.
Local media reports say Shamshiev was found dead in his office on January 25 in a suspected suicide.
Russian Suspect In Assassination Attempt On Ex-Ukrainian Security Officer Arrested.
A court in Moscow on April 18 sent to pretrial detention a Russian man suspected of being involved in the attempted murder of a former officer of Ukraine's Security Service (SBU).
Poland Detains Two Suspects In Attack On Navalny Associate In Lithuania.
Lithuanian President Gitanas Nauseda said on April 19 that Polish authorities had detained two men suspected of attacking Leonid Volkov, an associate of late Russian opposition learder Aleksei Navalny.
Israel Reportedly Launches Retaliatory Attack On Iran.
Israel has launched an attack in Iran, U.S. media reported quoting U.S. government officials, in what appears to be retaliatory strikes for the unprecedented air attack Tehran launched last weekend on its sworn enemy.
Japanese Group Escapes Suicide Bombing Attempt In Pakistan.
Five Japanese nationals escaped unhurt from a suicide attack in Pakistan's largest city, Karachi, early on April 19.
At Least Two Killed In Russian Strikes On Central Ukraine.
At least two people were killed and 15 wounded in the central Ukrainian city of Dnipro in a Russian missile attack early on April 19, Serhiy Lysak, chief of the Dnipropetrovsk region's administration, said on Telegram.
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