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Ministero Pubblico ella Confede.raziane Elvetica

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Berna Procurakice Federale Lucie Wellig

Commissione rogatoria internazionale

Gentile Collega
Ogg;etfo: 5^ integrazione della.commissione rogatoria I0 febb,raio 2011

Con la commissione rogatoria 9.12.201I (4^ integrazione) abbiam.o gi. evidenziafo che Aventall vei.colo societario apprtenente al gr.uppo Bateman - ha conisposto, ne1 corso del 2A0?,$1.500.000 complessivi ad Enviro Pacific Investments, societ verosimihnente rioollegabile ad esponenti di vertice dell' amminisfazione kazx.ka7...

Da elementi reperibili zu fonti aperte (cfr. allegato) Enviro Pacific risulterebbe, issieme ad alhe societ, segnatarrrente Merix lntenrational Ventnres e Oilex NV, aver fornito i fondi necessari per I'acquisto della tenuta di Sunninghill nel Regno Unito nell'iutercsse di Timur Kulibayev. Staudo aquanto risulta da fonti apertc risulterebbe che quest'ultimo, gi a capo de.lla sooiet di staro kazaka KazMunayGas (e fino ad ogei ai ve*ici di importanti organisrui. govenrativi operauti nel settore dell'energia) sia stato oggctto di rrna denuncia penalepresentata a odesto Ministero

Pubblico della Confedctaeione da un gruppo di cittadini kazaki. La denuncia riguarderebbe I'asrerito riciclaggio di dcnaro e{f,ettuato dal predetto per il tramite di $nrftffe societarie e persoD.e fisiche (Arvind Tiku) che compaiono altresi nellapresente inohiesta.

E' chisro I'iateresse ad ottenere copia

delJa denuncia e degli allegati. qurtomeno al fine di chiarire larete di rapporti personali e societari atlraverso cui si lpotizza siano stati cornmessi i fatti di comtzione rntemazionale she sono oggett6 d"ipdagine da parle di questa autorit giudiziaia.

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