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== MI6 officers allegedly leak oil dossier to Kazakhstan == | |||
David Leppard | |||
TWO serving MI6 officers have allegedly leaked confidential information to a firm of private consultants with links to the | |||
family of the president of Kazakhstan. | |||
The consultants are said to have been commissioned to obtain the information at a time when the American justice department | |||
was investigating allegations of bribes paid by American oil companies to **********, the Kazakh president, and his top | |||
officials. | |||
A 300-page report, said to have been prepared by the consultants, purports to summarise confidential MI6 files on political | |||
and economic issues affecting the oil-rich state. | |||
One MI6 officer is said to have divulged that MI6 was closely observing the role of Hurricane Hydrocarbons, a Canadian oil | |||
company, and financial arrangements involving oilfields in Kazakhstan. A second MI6 officer is alleged to have revealed | |||
information that the service held on Akezhan Kazhegeldin, the former Kazakh prime minister. The report also contains | |||
information that it claims was given by Scotland Yard detectives. | |||
The leaked document has been circulating in Washington for several months. Lawyers with knowledge of the case accept that the | |||
authors of the report may have embellished details of their contacts with law enforcement officials on both sides of the | |||
Atlantic. | |||
Yesterday a Whitehall security official said the report did not appear to match MI6s own records. Arman Baisuanov, a | |||
counsellor at the Kazakhstan embassy in London, denied that his government had been involved in any inappropriate or illegal | |||
activity. | |||
********** is chairman of the Commons foreign affairs committee which is responsible to parliament for overseeing the affairs | |||
of MI6. He said he was alarmed at suggestions that serving British intelligence officers might have leaked information that | |||
could have found its way into the hands of people whom the agency was monitoring. | |||
If true, these allegations raise very serious concerns and I expect the government to investigate them, he said. | |||
The Sunday Times has seen a copy of a report by Global Options Management, a firm of private security consultants with | |||
offices in Washington and, previously, in London. | |||
The company is chaired by **********, who is an economic adviser to the Kazakhstan government and a director of the countrys | |||
sovereign wealth fund. Political opponents of the Kazakh regime claim that ********** is ********** point man in Washington | |||
and that he helps to manage some of the Kazakh leaders wealth. | |||
********** last week declined to comment. **********, his spokesman, said: ********** is a respected business consultant | |||
based in the United States who rigorously abides by the laws and regulations of any country in which he operates. | |||
Privately, aides said ********** was aware of a report. But, shown a copy of the relevant extracts of the report, they | |||
declined to comment publicly. | |||
********** has admitted in the past that he has had dealings with **********, the presidents daughter who is an opera | |||
singer. But he denies that his firm had been hired by her to compile the document. | |||
**********, the presidents former son-in-law, has claimed that ********** has diverted billions of dollars in state assets | |||
and has long taken commissions from foreign companies doing business in Kazakhstan. | |||