The court of appeal of Lyon in the first day of the week rejected the claim of the advocates of the former head of Kazakhstan's BTA Bank Mukhtar Ablyazov, who was asked to release his client from custody, transfer Agency.

According to the head of the investigative chamber of the court Luc Fontaine, protection has not provided the necessary assurances that Ablyazov in the case of the release will not hide from justice.

Ablyazov was arrested in France on 31 July 2013 and since then placed under arrest. Before the French justice has twice rejected petitions for the release of the entrepreneur to freedom.

Kazakhstan accuses Ablyazov in financial violations totaling more than $ 6 billion. Himself Ablyazov and his supporters report that his prosecution is politically motivated. Issuing banker achieve also the Russian Federation and Ukraine.

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