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2010: Withdrawal of seizure from assets
In mid-December 2010, the British Civil Court lifted the arrest of Bulat Utemuratov's assets in a lawsuit by BTA Bank against its former owner Mukhtar Ablyazov and his son-in-law Ilyas Khrapunov.
The arrest was imposed on the assets of a businessman worth $5 billion on November 13, The Wall Street Journal reported. Interim measures affected the entrepreneur's accounts with banks UBS , Credit Suisse , EFG and DBS, the Burger King franchise in Kazakhstan, as well as companies that own shares in the Ritz-Carlton hotel chain in Vienna, Nur-Sultan and Moscow.
2020: Charge of money laundering in case of fraud involving Hotel Ritz-Carlton and Kazakhstan BTA Bank
In early December 2020, a British civil court arrested the Ritz-Carlton Hotel, located in the center of Moscow, in the case of money laundering through Kazakhstan's BTA Bank and the illegal withdrawal of money from it. Bulat Utemuratov is accused of involvement in money laundering and the withdrawal of assets. More details here.