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From: Elina Karakulova (ekarakulova@sorosny.org)
Date: Wed Jul 02 2003 - 14:13:30 EDT
KAZAKH OPPOSITION FIGURES REJECT ACCUSATIONS OF TAX EVASION
Two prominent Kazakh opposition figures, Republican People's Party leader Amirzhan Kosanov and former editor of the newspaper "SolDat" Ermurat Bapi, told a news conference in Almaty on 1 July that the authorities have unjustly accused them of tax evasion, Interfax-Kazakhstan and Deutsche Welle reported. Kosanov said the tax police are charging him with failing to pay income taxes for the last five years. His political party originated as a nongovernmental organization and received grants as an NGO, but Kosanov said the grants are now being considered taxable party income and the tax authorities are demanding 5 million tenges ($34,000). Bapi told journalists that he is being investigated for tax evasion, and the tax police prevented him from receiving a visa to attend the European Parliament hearings on the "Kazakhgate" bribery scandal that are scheduled to begin on 3 July in Strasbourg. BB
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