Kazakhstan's uranium 'stolen' by ex-official

ASTANA (AFP)

“Our information confirms the illegal tranfer of more than 60 percent of the state’s uranium deposits into the property of Dzhakishev and the companies he owned,” a KNB spokesman told reporters in the capital Astana.

The announcement by the KNB — the successor to the Soviet-era KGB — raises the pressure on Dzhakishev and other Kazatomprom executives, less than two weeks after he was stripped of his title and imprisoned.