The family of an exiled Kazakh tycoon accused of fraud filed a lawsuit in Italy.

Kazakhstani authorities paint him as a cunning fraudster, but banker Mukhtar Ablyazov casts himself as a principled fighter and a victim of persecution.

Former Kazakh oligarch Mr. Mukhtar Ablyazov was arrested in France last week. He is public enemy No. 1. of Kazakh President, Nursultan Nazarbayev.

Fresh details emerge of how financier accused of one of the world's biggest frauds was tracked down.

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.

The Supreme Court of Spain has decided to render Alexander Pavlov, a former bodyguard of the Kazakh opposition politician, Mukhtar Ablyazov, to Kazakhstan.

Scandal in Italy: An Israeli detective ordered the shadowing of Kazakh fugitive oligarch, Mukhtar Ablyazov and his family.

Italy has admitted under mounting pressure that mistakes were made in its hasty deportation of the wife and daughter of a prominent Kazakh dissident.

The Globalist.it newspaper published an article by Cinzia Gubbini entitled – ‘Ablyazov’s strange case and a rapid expulsion from Italy’.

Lawmakers demand resignation of interior minister Angelino Alfano for deporting Alma Shalabayeva and daughter Alua.

It was around midnight when some 30 armed men dressed in black burst into the villa in a well-to-do Rome suburb where Alma Shalabayeva and her young daughter had been living for the past eights months.

The wife and daughter of oligarch, Mukhtar Ablyazov, became the victims of a political showdown.