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Why Was ArcelorMittal Temirtau with 180 Fatalities Over 30 Years Asked to Leave Kazakhstan Only Now?
Ilova Sokolova
13.11.23
Lakshmi Mittal, owner of ArcelorMittal Temirtau, has enjoyed the support of ex-President Nursultan Nazarbayev. “No one could tell a word to Mittal,” this is how ex-prime minister of Kazakhstan, Serik Akhmetov, described the one considered guilty of the tragedy that unfolded on October 28, 2023 at the Kostenko Mine that claimed 46 lives. These words could be considered as the explanation of why a foreign investor with 180 fatalities at his plants for almost 30 years would stay in Kazakhstan. (more…)