How to Build a Customs Empire
For years, two powerful Central Asian families colluded to build a trading empire built on smuggling. Now, through relatives...
For years, two powerful Central Asian families colluded to build a trading empire built on smuggling. Now, through relatives...
Nearly half of donations received by a well-known Kyrgyz charity run by the powerful Matraimov family have been linked to an...
This investigative series is based, in part, on a trove of documents given to reporters by murdered money launderer Aierken...
One of the last claims made by Aierken Saimaiti, a self-confessed money launderer who was murdered in Istanbul last...
Kyrgyz lawmakers approved a report that was put together by a parliamentary commission which concluded that the government...
A former public official in Kyrgyzstan has accused his former boss of ordering the ‘dead or alive’ capture of a Prague-based...
Two Kyrgyz news media outlets, Radio Azattyk and Kloop, along with journalist Ali Toktakunov are standing trial on Wednesday...
A Kyrgyz court unfroze on Friday the bank accounts of two media outlets and a journalist after they were briefly blocked by...
A powerful Uighur family exploited a cash courier system widely used by Kyrgyz merchants to move millions of U.S. dollars...
For years, a network of informal couriers has funneled millions of dollars out of Kyrgyzstan in cold, hard cash. The...
As the season’s first snow fell, nearly a thousand people marched peacefully in the Kyrgyz capital of Bishkek on Monday in...
Despite receiving a death threat, the operator of a massive Kyrgyz money-laundering scheme shared hundreds of documents to...