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Zhanna Zhukova reports on the decision, announced yesterday by the court in Almaty, Kazakhstan, sentencing Rakhat Aliyev, former presidential son-in-law, to 20 years in jail for organizing of a mafia-type gang and abduction of two men thatare still missing. Aliyev himself is currently in Vienna, Austria.
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