By empty (5/19/2003 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Turkmen Prosecutor-General Kurbanbibi Atadjanova has said that Moscow Oblast\'s Zarai Raion court has issued an arrest warrant for the former head of Turkmenistan\'s Central Bank, Khudaiberdy Orazov. Orazov fled to Russia in early 2002 and joined the Turkmen opposition in exile. The Turkmen authorities subsequently accused him of embezzling $72 million during his tenure at the Central Bank.The Central Asia-Caucasus Analyst is a biweekly publication of the Central Asia-Caucasus Institute & Silk Road Studies Program, a Joint Transatlantic Research and Policy Center affiliated with the American Foreign Policy Council, Washington DC., and the Institute for Security and Development Policy, Stockholm. For 15 years, the Analyst has brought cutting edge analysis of the region geared toward a practitioner audience.
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