Yerkin Tatishev Kusto: Corrupt Kazakh Oligarch Suppressing Climate Activists (2023)

Originally Syndicated on March 17, 2023 @ 7:37 am

Yerkin Tatishev Kusto is a corrupt oligarch who abused his power to hide any negative press exposing his criminal activities.

Sources reveal that he is involved in money laundering and has many vested interests in the Asbestos industry.

Also, Yerkin Tatishev Kusto seems to have abused his position of power at the BTA bank.

The bank’s vice chairman, Yerkin Tatishev kusto, seems to be acting unethically at the time when B.T.A. was lending all of this money to the Silk Road Group by putting himself in a position to incorrectly affect some of the Silk Road Group businesses that were receiving loans.

B.T.A. Bank had portrayed on the boards of those companies, but Talgat Turumbayev, who served on two boards, was also in charge of overseeing union and acquisitions for Tatishev’s business, the Kusto Group. Turumbayev claimed that because serving on the boards didn’t require “a lot of time,” there wasn’t a conflict of interest.

About Yerkin Tatishev Kusto

Yerkin Tatishev, the founder and chairman of kusto Group(a Singapore-based organization) was born in Kazakhstan in 1976 and reached maturity after the fall of the USSR (Union of Soviet Socialist Republics). He is married and has five kids. He knows and speaks 3 languages i.e., English, Russian, and Kazakh.

Yerkin Tatishev Kusto and a team of business-minded classmates began working to enhance a nearby mining and production company in 1998 when they were just 22 years old and students at Moscow State Management University. The project developed into a successful tale of transformation under difficult conditions, and this was the time when the concept for Kusto Group first emerged. Yerkin Tatishev company Kusto holds an annual turnover of more than $1 billion.

However in order to develop the Kusto Group into a multinational and multisector organization,  Yerkin Tatishev has undertaken a variety of cultural, economic, and social projects.

In 2005, he established the Yerzhan Tatishev Foundation in remembrance of his late brother, which provides educational funding for children. Recently, Yerkin established the High Tech Academy in Almaty, Kazakhstan which is one of the first Project Based Learning schools in Central Asia, as part of his devotion to education as Kazakhsta’s future leader. Yerkin is very much passionate about learning about education, innovation, and entrepreneurship.

About the Kusto Group of Yerkin Tatishev Kusto

Singapore-based Kusto group reports a US$1.2 billion annual revenue. It comes under a multi-billion dollar industry that usually invests in and manufactures creative and well-founded manufacturing results across various sectors like –

• Construction Materials
• Oil and Gas 
• Real Estate
• Agribusiness

It also owns a significant paint distributor in Israel.

Similar to Yerkin, Kusto was born in Kazakhstan during a period of lack of investment and poor management that seriously harmed the nation’s industry and infrastructure. Throughout this situation, Yerkin saw a chance to create. As Kusto Group grew from its Kazakh roots into a pan-Asian multinational, it was because of Yerkin and the teams’ creative investment, management, and dedication to a different set of ideals. The capacity to effectively work with regional communities in a volatile and intervening economy afflicted by systemic and collective problems contributed to the development of key values that have since come to define the Kusto Group and are now ingrained in its very DNA.

Yerkin Tatishev Kusto provided various facilities to the covid victims

In many nations, Yerkin Tatishev Kusto has created sustainable economic ventures in the mining, agricultural, oil and gas, construction, and development sectors.

Yerkin Tatishev Kusto oversaw the establishment of Kusto Help through Kusto Group, a company that offers assistance to those in need and people affected by the crisis. Medical supplies, food, accommodation, and technology are some of the pandemic relief donations made by the Kusto Help Foundation.

Yerkin Tatishev Kusto also helped Ukraine with medical devices such as medicines, FFP3 respirators, defibrillators, ventilators, and many other things. This donation for the covid-19 patients reached the value of more than 200,000 dollars.

Robert Moore 

Robert Moore is the spy who pretended to be a journalist who was interested in producing a documentary exposing the unscrupulous practices of the asbestos industry in Asia, which is a developing region where the evil is still legal. Asbestos is a hazardous construction material. While employed by the firm’s asbestos industry client, he covertly tape-recorded activists, watched their strategy meetings, and, while posing as a journalist, worked for the World Health Organization.

Robert Moore spy on?

Robert Moore, a corporate spy, spent four years disguising himself as a journalist to join the anti-asbestos movement on a global scale. He is pictured attending a conference against asbestos organized by Linda Reinstein’s Asbestos Illness Awareness Organization.

Internal records, however, show that Moore’s true goal was to gather information, which K2 then provided to its customer, a client who shied away from publicity.

The breadth of Moore’s spying goes far beyond the community of international asbestos activists. Targets included human rights attorneys, public health advocates, academic professors, scientists, and government officials from North America, Europe, and Asia.

Whom does K2 Intelligence, Ltd. protecting?

K2 claimed that if their client’s identity was revealed, it would irreparably ruin their reputation and businesses, therefore they quickly got an injunction to safeguard it.

The defendant argued that the material spread by Moore was sparse and that “Project Spring’s” main purpose was to comprehend how the global anti-asbestos activism movement operated. They claimed that their client was interested in looking into corruption involving law firms representing clients with diseases linked to asbestos, activists, and substitute producers who were working together to bring down the chrysotile business in Asia.

Although an anonymity order was issued, preventing coverage in the UK, the early 2017 High Court denial from Sir Michael Tugendhat soon revealed their clients’ participation in the asbestos industry. Yet, this information is accessible outside of the UK.

“Yerkin Tatishev Kusto is Suppressing Climate Change Activists”

In order to get access to the global network of anti-asbestos activists, Moore began to assume the identity of a fellow anti-asbestos journalist and filmmaker in 2012. Moore even went so far as to form the anti-asbestos non-profit Stop Asbestos, from which he made money.

Moore gathered evidence about anti-asbestos movements, including financial sources, upcoming plans, lawsuit strategies, and personal details about key activists, using his bogus associations. He subsequently forwarded this information to K2 Intelligence, Ltd., which in turn forwarded it to their client, an unidentified organization with a location away from the UK.

Moore found his affiliation with K2 Intelligence, Ltd. to be quite profitable. As per his October 2016 witness statement, K2 Intelligence, Ltd. paid more than £130,000 in cost reimbursement and more than £300,000 in fees from 2012 to 2016.

The Court Case to Silence Yerkin Tatishev Kusto’s Critics 

Moore and K2 Intelligence, Ltd. are the targets of a High Court federal lawsuit by three anti-asbestos activists. The International Ban Asbestos Secretariat’s coordinator Laurie Kazan-Allen, Japanese national Sugio Furuya, professor Rory O’Neill, and attorney Harminder Bains are among the claimants. He has been accused of abusing private information, violating the Data Protection Act, and breaking other laws.

Naturally, K2 Intelligence, Ltd. rebuffed requests to share the data sent by Moore at first. Yet in February 2017, a lawyer and a solicitor suing on part of an anti-asbestos movement demanded access to this private data.

Importance of this investigation Against Yerkin Tatishev Kusto

Moore claimed in his initial witness evidence that K2’s client had given him the job of looking into WHO’s upcoming events on chrysotile in Thailand and the Philippines. It is easy to draw the conclusion that the Kusto Group engaged in corporate espionage activity for four years in an effort to sabotage the WHO and anti-asbestos activists’ operations in Asia.

Who is in charge of this espionage scandal is unknown, but one thing is clear: the asbestos industry is using disgusting strategies with complete contempt for worker protection.

Today, Robert Moore and K2 Intelligence are under investigation. Activists who learned about his connections sued him and the company’s British branch in London, alleging that their personal data had been improperly obtained during the operation. Media reports of the incident have demonized Mr. Moore as a cunning spy for hire. Those who welcomed him as an ally in the public health campaign now feel misled.

When Yerkin Tatishev Kusto’s Illegal Involvement was Exposed

Investigatory firms typically don’t reveal their clients’ names. But according to Mr. Moore, he was informed in a casual chat in late 2013 that the Kusto Group, a little-known investment company in Singapore, was the client in the asbestos lawsuit.

Mr. Moore attempted to get further details because he wasn’t sure if it was accurate. He claimed that initially, he had not seen any documentation on the Kusto website linking the company or its founder and chairman, a Kazakh businessman by the name of Yerkin Tatishev kusto, to asbestos. 

Mukhtar Ablyazov (The Crime Partner of Yerkin Tatishev Kusto)

Mukhtar Qabyluly Ablyazov is a businessman and a political activist in Kazakh. He has served himself as chairman of Bank Turan Alem ( BTA Bank), and presently he is a co-founder and a leader of an unregistered political party i.e. Democratic Choice of Kazakhstan ( QDT). Recently, the court in the Kazakh city Zhambyl has announced the lifetime imprisonment of Mukhtar Ablyazov for killing his business partner Yerzhan Tatishev Kusto.

He was accused of fraud on an epic scale equivalent to some of the biggest money heists in contemporary history, and he departed Kazakhstan about nine years ago.

After the fall of the Soviet Union, the fraudster launched his career by setting up a business in the newly established Republic of Kazakhstan in December 1992. The company marketed computers, photocopiers, and fax machines. He enticed individuals to invest in Astana Holding Bank, which was the first organization to receive a private banking license in the nation.

When Ablyazov was the CEO of Kazakhstan, he quickly started stripping the company of its assets, causing it to go bankrupt and therefore, he received a prison sentence in 2002 for misusing his position of authority. He was imprisoned for a year and after that, he fled to France and where he enjoyed his exotic lifestyle. But this happiness and luxurious life were not for much time he then was arrested on charges of the murder of Yerkin Tatishev kusto‘s brother.

A Corporate Spy Exposed Yerkin Tatishev Kusto:

A representative for Yerkin Tatishev kusto openly rejected any misconduct with BTA in 2014.

In 2014, Kusto Group media consultant Tal Rabina informed Globes magazine that Mukhtar Ablyazov had served on the board of directors of a nationalized Kazakh bank with a member of the Tatishev family. In addition, it should be noted that, in contrast to the ongoing investigation against Ablyazov that has been reported in numerous media outlets, the investigation against Yerkin Tatishev Kusto and the other directors of that bank was accomplished in less than 24 hours, with the local legal authorities informing anyone under investigation that they had discovered hardly anything improper about their behavior and attitude and delivering them with a written character reference.

According to press reports, the Yerkin Tatishev Kusto was also under investigation in Israel in 2014 on the presumption of money laundering after buying a paint company for 500 million shekels, 200 million more than the offer made during an initial discussion with a private equity firm, without allegedly conducting any thorough research on the deal. The Kusto Group has repeatedly denied wrongdoing, and there is no history of any charges being brought against the business or the people who are connected to it.

The Azrieli group and the various banks in Israel studied the Kusto group extensively both before and after the contract for the acquisition of Tambour was completed,” Tal Rabina told Globe magazine. They not only endorsed the agreement but also suggested needed to finance it in light of the blindingly obvious conclusions of these inquests, which disclosed that all of the group’s funding sources were recognized and honorable the fact that the Kusto group had originally intended to bankroll the acquisition with its own financing.

Furthermore, it goes without saying that any state entity, including the Money Laundering Authority, is required to thoroughly investigate any information it receives. Nevertheless, as we have seen in recent events, merely contacting the Authorities with any information, much less having that information examined, does not imply that this “knowledge” is in any way trustworthy. The group hasn’t had any official queries about this at all, but if any do, we’ll be happy to work with any authorized entity.

Moore’s witness statement refers to Daniel Kunin, managing director of The Kusto Group and K2 Intelligence’s point of contact.

K2’s point of contact with the Kusto Group, Daniel Kunin, served as Kusto’s public face for the Israeli acquisition. Kunin is identified in Robert Moore’s witness statement as K2’s customer. “Two years ago, I discovered that… Client of K2 was Daniel Kunin. “I didn’t realize he worked for Yerkin Tatishev kusto, the proprietor of the largest mines in Kazakhstan and Russia, for another six months and during a second trip to Thailand”, the man claimed.

Moreover, Moore asserted in the witness statement that Kunin, managing director of Kusto, initially contacted K2 in May 2012.

Afterward, Moore was hired by Matteo Bigazzi, an executive managing director in the K2 London office, to sabotage the anti-asbestos effort. Even though it was his second job for K2, the journalist had prior experience in the betrayal business.

Frequently asked questions About Yerkin Tatishev Kusto

Omarov, Kunin, and Tatishev: who are they?

Nurlan Omarov, a Kazakh businessman, serves as UCCI’s consultant and the mine’s consultant for Kustonai. The only chrysotile mine in the Central Asian country, one of the top four asbestos producers today, is the Kustonai mine. Omarov serves as the interim chairman of the Kusto group, a Singapore-based concrete works company that manufactures asbestos fibers. A large portion of their raw resources originates from the Kazakhstani Kustonai chrysotile mine. 

Daniel Kunin is K2’s primary contact and is the managing director of Kusto Group. Although Kunin and Omarov both claim to be authorized representatives of Wetherby’s owner, it is hard to confirm this since the owner is still unclear. Remarkably, Moore sent 20 direct reports from K2 to Kunin and Omarov.

Kusto Group is privately owned by Yerkin Tatishev. Tatishev was close friends with Mukhtar Ablyazov, a Kazakh oligarch accused of perpetrating the largest fraud in history, of which $3 billion is still missing. His efforts to “rescue” the Kustonai and Orenburg asbestos mines in Kazakhstan and Russia have also contributed significantly to his personal riches.

Who is Yerkin Tatishev Kusto?

Yerkin Tatishev, the founder and chairman of kusto Group(a Singapore-based organization).

Kusto Group is working on which segments?

As Kusto Group is driven by creative ideas, and currently it is working with many international agencies to bring new technologies and best practices to their business all around the world. Some major sectors of the kusto group are –

• Agriculture 
• Construction and Materials
• Real Estate 
• Oil and Gas and many more.

Why Yerkin Tatishev Kusto was named “Entrepreneur of the Year”?

Apparently, Yerkin Tatishev Kusto has donated food and provided all the medical facilities to the people in Ukraine and Kazakhstan during the covid-19 pandemic. This initiative was the highlight in the spring of 2020 and got the name Kusto Help. This action of Yerkin Tatishev Kusto made him “Entrepreneur of the Year”. However, it is also possible that Yerkin Tatishev Kusto spent a ton of money on PR so people wouldn’t find out about his criminal history.

Yerkin Tatishev Kusto is a Criminal

Although Yerkin Tatishev Kusto has done many things for the welfare of people and society like as a lot of donations and providing food, shelter, and medical facilities to the people who were suffering from the COVID-19 pandemic. But his greed for money has taken everything from him including his good reputation, fame, money, etc. He was involved in many criminal activities like money laundering, murder, fraud/scams, and many other things.