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| == MI6 officers allegedly leak oil dossier to Kazakhstan ==
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| David Leppard
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| TWO serving MI6 officers have allegedly leaked confidential information to a firm of private consultants with links to the
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| family of the president of Kazakhstan.
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| The consultants are said to have been commissioned to obtain the information at a time when the American justice department
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| was investigating allegations of bribes paid by American oil companies to **********, the Kazakh president, and his top
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| officials.
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| A 300-page report, said to have been prepared by the consultants, purports to summarise confidential MI6 files on political
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| and economic issues affecting the oil-rich state.
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| One MI6 officer is said to have divulged that MI6 was “closely observing” the role of Hurricane Hydrocarbons, a Canadian oil
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| company, and financial arrangements involving oilfields in Kazakhstan. A second MI6 officer is alleged to have revealed
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| information that the service held on Akezhan Kazhegeldin, the former Kazakh prime minister. The report also contains
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| information that it claims was given by Scotland Yard detectives.
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| The leaked document has been circulating in Washington for several months. Lawyers with knowledge of the case accept that the
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| authors of the report may have embellished details of their contacts with law enforcement officials on both sides of the
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| Atlantic.
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| Yesterday a Whitehall security official said the report did not appear to match MI6’s own records. Arman Baisuanov, a
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| counsellor at the Kazakhstan embassy in London, denied that his government had been involved in any inappropriate or illegal
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| activity.
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| ********** is chairman of the Commons foreign affairs committee which is responsible to parliament for overseeing the affairs
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| of MI6. He said he was alarmed at suggestions that serving British intelligence officers might have leaked information that
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| could have found its way into the hands of people whom the agency was monitoring.
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| “If true, these allegations raise very serious concerns and I expect the government to investigate them,” he said.
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| The Sunday Times has seen a copy of a report by Global Options Management, a firm of private security consultants with
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| offices in Washington and, previously, in London.
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| The company is chaired by **********, who is an economic adviser to the Kazakhstan government and a director of the country’s
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| sovereign wealth fund. Political opponents of the Kazakh regime claim that ********** is ********** “point man” in Washington
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| and that he helps to manage some of the Kazakh leader’s wealth.
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| ********** last week declined to comment. **********, his spokesman, said: “********** is a respected business consultant
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| based in the United States who rigorously abides by the laws and regulations of any country in which he operates.”
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| Privately, aides said ********** was “aware” of a report. But, shown a copy of the relevant extracts of the report, they
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| declined to comment publicly.
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| ********** has admitted in the past that he has had dealings with **********, the president’s daughter who is an opera
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| singer. But he denies that his firm had been hired by her to compile the document.
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| **********, the president’s former son-in-law, has claimed that ********** has diverted billions of dollars in state assets
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| and has long taken commissions from foreign companies doing business in Kazakhstan.
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