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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.