UK Holds Debate Over Imposing Anti-Corruption Sanctions on Kazakhstan
The U.K.'s House of Commons held a debate session titled "Kazakhstan: Anti-corruption Sanctions" Feb. 3 to discuss imposing restrictive measures on bad actors in the Central Asian nation. Margaret Hodge, who chairs the All-Party Parliament Group -- an informal collection…
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of cross-party groups with no official status in Parliament -- said the U.K. should use its global anti-corruption sanctions regime to designate the "kleptocrats" in Kazakhstan. Hodge called for sanctions on 24 individuals, all of whom she said have benefited from the alleged kleptocracy at the heart of the Kazakh government. Many of those individuals are related to the Kazakh president.