Their trading monopoly, built on bribery and alleged smuggling, was exposed. But that hasn't stopped the secretive Khabibula...
The Abdukadyr family earned hundreds of millions of dollars thanks to their alliance with corrupt officials in neighboring...
President Mirziyoyev promised reforms and transparency. But among the top foreign investors pouring money into his new...
For years, the Abdukadyr family’s self-confessed money launderer sent their money abroad using a variety of invented...
President Sadyr Japarov has promoted two major projects — a large mosque and a complex in the center of Bishkek — that will...
Raimbek Matraimov, a shadowy Kyrgyz political operator, has long denied his ties to Khabibula Abdukadyr, the secretive...
Our initial investigation about Khabibula Abdukadyr and how his alliance with Kyrgyz customs officials enabled him to build a Central Asian trading monopoly. Based on documents provided by Abdukadyr’s self-confessed money launderer, who was gunned down in Istanbul weeks before publication.
In 2020, we investigated the continued political influence and unexplained wealth of Raimbek Matraimov, Khabibula Abdukadyr’s ally in the Kyrgyz customs service. His political ambitions helped spark a revolution — and he has since been convicted of corruption.