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DC Circuit dismisses challenge to award enforcement against Kazakhstan (Stati v Kazakhstan)

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Published on: 24 April 2019
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Law360: Kazakhstan was unable to convince the US District of Columbia (DC) Circuit that a lower court had wrongly refused to consider evidence that a US half billion dollar arbitration award against it, which was issued to two Moldovan oil and gas investors, had been tainted by fraud.

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