Nick Kochan is a writer specialising in the field of finance and financial crime. His publications include 'Gordon Brown: The First Year in Power', a biography of Gordon Brown as Chancellor of the Exchequer and 'The Washing Machine', a study of international money laundering.
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Published in: oDRThe split widens in the ruling family of UzbekistanHaving been accused of misappropriating hundreds of millions of dollars, Gulnara Karimova is now under house arrest...
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Published in: oDRKazakh banking – devaluation, consolidation and bad loansKazakh banking is in a state of disarray, as banks assimilate the consequences of a recent 20% devaluation of the...
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Published in: oDRKazakhstan – the successionPresident Nazarbayev has turned Kazakhstan into a Central Asian powerhouse. He is 73, and shows no sign of giving up...
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Published in: HomeBank in the shadowsThe collapse of Iceland's three major banks in 2008 put tremendous strain and $100billion worth of losses onto this...
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Published in: oDR4-Star Wars: flashpoint in KyrgyzstanSupplying fuel to the American government to keep military planes running into Afghanistan is a lucrative business....