Stage 2 details (arrest/ detention/ extradition):

In 2009, the Kazakh bank BTA, started legal proceedings against its former chairman Ablyazov and his associates in London in 2009, says it wants to break up a network he used to hide and disperse billions of dollars of the bank’s assets (Reuters, 2013).

A UK court sentenced Ablyazov to 22 months in prison in February 2012, finding him in contempt of court for trying to conceal holdings from BTA Bank in violation of a 2009 asset-freezing order, reported Bloomberg. The court ruled the brothers Shalabayev in contempt soon after (OCCRP,2016).

Salim Shalabayev was found by private detectives in the UK to have aided Ablyazov in hiding financial and company records in a storage facility in London. E-mails in his personal Yahoo account proved he was overseeing the transfer of offshore companies on behalf of the former tycoon, according to court records obtained by Bloomberg (OCCRP, 2016).

In 2013, he has been sentenced to jail in Britain for contempt of court (Reuters, 2013). Syrym Shalabayev was arrested in Lithuania last July in response to an Interpol warrant but was released on bail in August 2015 after a Lithuanian court ruled that Ukrainian and Kazakh extradition requests for him would be addressed only after the government decided whether to grant asylum to him or not (OCCRP, 2016).