Slovakia’s Defense Ministry Under Fire for Jets Connected to Kazakh Dictator’s Family.

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Before Christmas, Slovakia’s Ministry of Defense bought two planes, both of which had previously served as private jets for the wealthy. One was used by the daughter of long-time Kazakh dictator Nursultan Nazarbayev. However, the Slovak ministry bought them from a Florida company. That company is represented in Eastern Europe by a man the Investigative Center of Ján Kuciak (ICJK)fkucaik previously wrote about in connection with the Grupo America drug gang. The investigation has found that the Florida company violates Slovak law because it did not disclose its true owners in the state register, in which every company doing business with the public sector must enter. According to lawyer Andrej Leontiev, the ministry should therefore consider suspending the contracts or reviewing their validity.