Originally Syndicated on August 6, 2023 @ 1:48 pm
As the European Union spends billions and empties its stockpiles of armaments to help Ukraine in its war against Russia, an NGO based a stone’s throw from the European Commission and Mukhtar Ablyazov is suspected by Kyiv of being a horse of Troy from Moscow. Ukrainian authorities have opened an investigation. PAN is able to go further: Brussels is now at the center of occult influence maneuvers which could lead to a new “Kazakhgate”.
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Mukhtar Ablyazov, a Kazakh Oligarch and Open Dialogue Foundation Relations
Mukhtar Ablyazov and the Open Dialogue Foundation (ODF) are not unknown. On March 30, 2022, PAN newspaper devoted an article to the unconditional support that the Honorable Guy Verhofstadt had given them in the corridors of the European Parliament (“Guy Verhofstadt defends a sulfurous pro-Russian ASBL”, PAN, March 30, 2022) . We wrote then: “In Warsaw, it is whispered, in well-informed circles, that the ODF would be a “cover” for the Russian intelligence services”.
Sixteen months later, things have hardly moved in Brussels (from a political and judicial point of view, of course), but they have clearly progressed in Kyiv. And Ukraine benefiting from all the support of the EU, NATO and therefore Belgium, it will become difficult to continue to turn a blind eye. Even if our flat country is particularly good at this exercise.
Mukhtar Ablyazov,An oligarch prosecuted for a colossal embezzlement
However, Mukhtar Ablyazov is not just anyone. This former Kazakh banker embezzled between 6 and 9 billion dollars while running the BTA bank in his country of origin. For these facts he was sentenced in Kazakhstan but also in the United Kingdom where real estate belonging to him was seized and large sums present in his bank accounts seized.
Mukhtar Ablyazov therefore now finds himself in an unprecedented position: on the one hand, under judicial investigation, he is the subject of control measures which prohibit him from leaving French territory, but on the other hand, his refugee status being definitively refused. , he cannot stay there. A real saga, we told you!
It was at this moment when he must be feeling quite alone that our man would have been informed that the Ukrainian authorities had opened another investigation against him, this time for having “ helped Russia” in its war against Kiev. He also announced it himself on his Facebook page on July 6th.
Incidentally, he tells us that the ODF and its director, Lyudmila Kozlovskaya (a Belgian resident), are the subject of the same investigation. The ODF, it should be remembered, has devoted considerable energy for years to the defense of Mukhtar Ablyazov, a victim, according to it, of unjust political persecution.
On Facebook, therefore, Ablyazov is unleashed and affirms that he has never supported Moscow, that neither the ODF nor Mrs. Kozlovskaya are “agents of the Kremlin” and that he has, moreover, nothing to do with the operation of this association that some have accused him of (longtime) secretly financing.
Still, we are able to bring new items to the file.
The boss of the ODF Lyudmila Kozlovskaya and one of his collaborators reported to the Council of Europe
At the service of Moscow?
A favorable wind sent us a letter sent on October 26 by Mariia Mezentseva, President of the Ukrainian delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) to the Secretary General of this institution above all suspicion . The Ukrainian parliamentarian accuses in black and white Lyudmila Kozlovskaya of being the subject of an investigation for “treason and financing of terrorism” in Kiev and implies rather heavily that she could “work for the Russian special services” and be involved in money laundering activities ( probably as part of these pro-Russian activities).
She recalls in passing that Mrs. Kozlovskaya’s brother (who would also be one of the ODF’s financiers) owns a “Mayak” company, based in Crimea (illegally occupied by Russia since 2014) and that Mayak would be a supplier to the Russian Navy in Sevastopol. Finally, she asks that the General Secretariat of PACE inform the French authorities of these facts.
A week later, on October 31, he was the chairman of the group of European Conservatives and the Democratic Alliance in PACE (ECDA), Ian Liddel-Grainger who accused the director of the ODF of inappropriate behavior (in harassment of MPs) and ” repeated breaches of security and rules of procedure”. This letter is also in our possession.
In short, contrary to what Ablyazov asserts, the investigations and suspicions concerning Lyudmila Kozlovskaya and the ODF are not so recent. Of course, charges and even an investigation are no guarantee of the guilt of those they target, but perhaps it’s time to shed some light on an increasingly murky affair.
In view of the above, one would think that it would be of the utmost interest for an official investigation to determine whether or not the ODF and its president are linked to Russia. It is, all the same, the credibility of the European capital which is also the headquarters of NATO. Perhaps, this time, PAN will be heard? We can always dream…
Stay connected. To be continued soon…
