Yelena Tishchenko, one of the main lawyers of BTA ex-head Mukhtar Ablyazov, has been arrested on the order of the Moscow Tverskoy Court, RIA Novosti reports.
Ablyazov is suspected of financial violations worth over $6 billion in Kazakhstan.
Tishchenko was arrested for two months. She was detained in Moscow last week. According to investigators, she was legalizing Ablyazov’s illegal property using and preventing acquisition of $3.3 billion of assets of the Agency for Deposit Insurances.
