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Less than a month after its editor-in-chief was sentenced to eight years in prison, major Kazakh news site Orda.kz has ceased publication - a move the owner claims is financial, but press freedom advocates call the culmination of a systematic state crackdown.

Journalists collected testimonies from victims and directly named the businessman as the organizer of a multi-layered financial pyramid.

Users are massively complaining about unauthorized deductions in the Freedom ecosystem.

Victims of fraud by top managers of Freedom Holding Corp., controlled by businessman of Russian origin Timur Turlov, have refuted — including with documented proof — his claims regarding the criminal cases, in which he alleged that “the dispute concerns only individuals who had civil-law relations with each other,” thereby catching him in an outright lie.

Russian-born billionaire Timur Turlov and his controlled company, Freedom Finance, have become concerned about their reputation six months after complaints from victims.

The Russian state corporation Deposit Insurance Agency (DIA) is demanding compensation from businessman Timur Turlov, who has obtained Kazakh citizenship, for the withdrawal of assets from Russia, reports the agency’s correspondent.