It was revealed in 2009 that the bank was defrauded of up to $6 billion of cash in one of the world's biggest cases of financial fraud.

Private investigators have been used in an attempt to recover some of the funds, who in October 2010 found documents and disc drives relating to the bank in a self-storage facility in north London.

A found documents and disc drives relating to the bank in a self-storage facility in north Londonthrough which BTA had transacted.

[6] The debts were incurred by alleged mismanagement and embezzlement by former BTA Bank Chairman Muktar Ablyazov.

[4] In February 2009 Samruk-Kazyna Fund purchased 75.1% of BTA Bank's shares as part of contingency measures of the government of the Republic of Kazakhstan.

BTA Bank also entered into a revised Revocable Committed Trade Finance Facility (RCTFF) with liabilities amounting to around $348 mln.

After successful completion of rather difficult and scaled restructuring process BTA Bank focused on restoration of its former market positions and currently is a stable and sustainable financial institution.

BTA's banking networks are spread around Kazakhstan, Russia, Belarus, Ukraine, Kyrgyzstan, Armenia, Georgia and Turkey.

In December 2021 BTA Bank has sold 100% of "Nord Star", operator of Vitino seaport in Murmansk Oblast, to Vladimir Golubev, co-owner of "Adamant" holding.

[9] BTA has subsidiaries and representative offices in Kazakhstan, Ukraine, Russia, China, Turkey, Georgia, Belarus, Armenia.