Giuseppe Procaccini, former head of the cabinet of the Italian Minister of Interior, testified yesterday before the prosecutor responsible for examining the issue of Alma Shalabayeva’s deportation in late May 2013.

The former head of Kazakhstan's BTA Bank, Mukhtar Ablyazov, accused the government of Kazakhstan of kidnapping his wife and 6-year-old daughter. He wrote about this on his Facebook page.

Kidnapping. Suspicion of a crime, the Roman Prosecutor’s Office opens a new file with regard to Shalabayeva’s case, adding the ambassador of Kazakhstan, Andrian Yelemessov, and two diplomatic officials, Nurlan Khassen and Yerzhan Yessirkepov, to the list of those under investigation.

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

The story of the deportation of Ablyazov’s family was very timely and unravelled at a time of domestic political struggle in Italy, says Muratbek Ketebayev.

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

Angelino Alfano accused of ordering an 'extraordinary rendition' to help Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev.

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 of the former chairman of the Board of Directors of Kazakhstan's BTA Bank, Ablyazov, and his daughter have been deported from Italy to Kazakhstan, confirms the General Prosecutor’s Office of Kazakhstan.

The wife and daughter of a fugitive Kazakh businessman have been deported from Italy back to Kazakhstan. Ablyazov accused Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbaev of kidnapping his family members.

Italy said on Friday it would revoke a deportation order against the wife and daughter of Kazakh oligarch and dissident Mukhtar Ablyazov, criticising serious failings in a procedure it maintained was conducted without its knowledge.

The wife of Mukhtar Ablyazov: former head of the Board of Directors of Kazakhstan's BTA Bank, Alma Shalabayeva, received a non-custodial sentence for using a forged document, Deputy Prosecutor General Johann Merkel told reporters in Astana.