The Matraimov Kingdom

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....

Raimbek Matraimov is a powerful Kyrgyz political operator known for his massive wealth. This investigation into his wife’s...

A private resort village on the shores of Kyrgyzstan’s Lake Issyk Kul is among the clues that connect former Kyrgyz customs...

Not much has changed in Kyrgyzstan’s customs service since Matraimov’s firing and conviction. His successor, Zamirbek...

Here's how reporters used open-source investigative techniques to discover a new property apparently owned by the Matraimov...

Reporters used open-source investigative techniques to discover a cottage the Matraimov family frequented near Lake Issyk...

An open-source investigation suggests that the families of Raimbek Matraimov, Kyrgyzstan’s disgraced former deputy customs...

According to an associate, Kyrgyzstan’s former deputy customs chief had to raise money from friends and relatives to pay the...

After agreeing to compensate the Kyrgyz government for years of corruption, the powerful former official went on a...

Here’s how Kyrgyz citizens banded together during a week of political chaos to take care of each other when their state...

Enraged over an election they saw as undermined by rampant vote-buying, thousands stormed Kyrgyzstan’s parliament and...

Over the span of five years, one man funnelled hundreds of millions of dollars out of Central Asia. What he knew may have...

A money launderer told journalists what he knew about a secretive smuggling empire and a senior Kyrgyz official who enabled...

Despite receiving a death threat, the operator of a massive Kyrgyz money-laundering scheme shared hundreds of documents to...

The wife of Raimbek Matraimov, a powerful former Kyrgyz customs chief, has a joint investment in Dubai with a shadowy Uighur...

Nearly half of donations received by a well-known Kyrgyz charity run by the powerful Matraimov family have been linked to an...

One of the last claims made by Aierken Saimaiti, a self-confessed money launderer who was murdered in Istanbul last...