Banque Internationale à Luxembourg

Application by Makhpal Karibzhanova, who "is a citizen of Kazakhstan and is the former wife of a wealthy and politically-connected Kazakh businessman, Aidan Karibzhanov", for an order of judicial assistance "to obtain testimony and documentary evidence to assist in discovery for use in prospective Kazakhstan civil proceedings" involving her former husband, filed at the U. S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.

US businessman Gary Kremen has offered a US$50,000 reward for information leading to the arrest of Stephen Michael Cohen, whom a US court recently ruled had stolen the domain name 'sex.com' from Kremen and subsequently made millions of dollars from it. An arrest warrant was issued against Cohen on March 2, 2001 after he failed to turn over details relating to his assets. On April 3, 2001, Kremen was awarded $65 million against Cohen by a Federal Court in California.