For years, two powerful Central Asian families colluded to build a trading empire built on smuggling. Now, through relatives...
The Matraimov family has long used its questionable wealth to gain social and political influence in its native Kyrgyzstan....
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...
Internal documents detail investigations into inflated contracts and IT systems delays that hurt the country’s exporters.
In Tajikistan, resorts belonging to the ruling family get tax-free facelifts.
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...
Despite receiving a death threat, the operator of a massive Kyrgyz money-laundering scheme shared hundreds of documents to...
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...
