It’s one of the biggest corporate frauds you likely don’t remember—or never heard about. More than a decade ago, an internal investigation at Kazakhstan’s BTA Bank found that Mukhtar Ablyazov abused his position as chairman of the bank to steal billions through a fraudulent loan scheme.

Last week, jurors in Manhattan federal court routed a significant sliver of those funds back to the bank thanks to the work of our Litigators of the Week, Matthew Schwartz, John Zach and Craig Wenner of Boies Schiller Flexner. The Boies trial team secured a $100 million verdict against Triadou, a shell company previously controlled by Ablyazov’s son-in-law that funneled funds into real estate investments in the U.S. With interest, the total recovery could come in at more than twice that amount.

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