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Peer suspended from House of Lords was allegedly paid $1m in ‘corrupt’ deal
- The Guardian reported Evans broke lobbying rules and he will be suspended for five months.
- Evans faces separate lawsuits over alleged $1 million in illicit payments as a director of Jusan Technologies Ltd.
- Orynbayev alleges the assets were sold for a fraction of their value in a sham deal.
- Evans and fellow directors deny the allegations as meritless lawsuits.
- The court disputes involve UK and US cases over Kazakh asset sales and charity funding.
- The Guardian’s undercover reporting exposed Evans’s involvement in events offering access to MPs for paying attendees.
- Evans has been a director at Jusan Technologies since 2022 amid Kazakh government actions.
- A former Kazakh deputy prime minister, Yerbol Orynbayev, leads the US lawsuit claims.
- UK judge questioned Orynbayev’s credibility in a 2024 preliminary ruling.
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