Largely unable to communicate with the outside world, the former head of Kazakhstan’s state uranium conglomerate has made one thing clear: he blames his arrest and 14-year prison term at least in part on a Canadian company’s corporate dealings. They allege that Hillary Clinton, as secretary of state, paved the way for the Toronto-based firm’s transfer to a Russian state corporation as pay-back for largely Canadian donations to the Clinton charitable foundation. Dzhakishev ties it to the Canadian firm’s sale and a Russian drive to control uranium production in his country, developments he says he opposed while heading Kazatomprom, Kazakhstan’s state-owned uranium company. Within a year, the Russian company had control of Uranium One. A December 2009 cable from the American embassy in Kazakhstan, obtained by Wikileaks, offers some validation of Dzakhishev’s theory that the Uranium One purchase was part of a Russian uranium conquest.

Source: National Post November 02, 2017 16:04 UTC