Wednesday, June 3, 2009

Half Of Kazakhstan's Uranium Stolen By Ex-official: Police

Image from NTI

From Space War:

The recently imprisoned former head of Kazakhstan's state nuclear power agency stole the majority of the Central Asian nation's uranium deposits, security officials alleged on Monday.

Former Kazatomprom head Mukhtar Dzhakishev and other company officials illegally shifted ownership of uranium mines worth tens of billions of dollars through a network of offshore companies, the KNB security service said.

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My Comment: Forget about the uranium mines that he sold illegaly .... I would like to know if he sold anything else .... like fissionable material.

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