For years, the Abdukadyr family’s self-confessed money launderer sent their money abroad using a variety of invented...
Their trading monopoly, built on bribery and alleged smuggling, was exposed. But that hasn't stopped the secretive Khabibula...
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According to an associate, Kyrgyzstan’s former deputy customs chief had to raise money from friends and relatives to pay the...
A money launderer told journalists what he knew about a secretive smuggling empire and a senior Kyrgyz official who enabled...
For years, two powerful Central Asian families colluded to build a trading empire built on smuggling. Now, through relatives...
One of the last claims made by Aierken Saimaiti, a self-confessed money launderer who was murdered in Istanbul last...
The Abdukadyr family made millions on the back of an illicit Central Asian cargo business. Now we know where the money ended...
A powerful Uighur family exploited a cash courier system widely used by Kyrgyz merchants to move millions of U.S. dollars...
As the season’s first snow fell, nearly a thousand people marched peacefully in the Kyrgyz capital of Bishkek on Monday in...
Over the span of five years, one man funnelled hundreds of millions of dollars out of Central Asia. What he knew may have...
The wife of Raimbek Matraimov, a powerful former Kyrgyz customs chief, has a joint investment in Dubai with a shadowy Uighur...