A Powerful Kyrgyz Clan's Political Play
The Matraimov family has long used its questionable wealth to gain social and political influence in its native Kyrgyzstan....
The Matraimov family has long used its questionable wealth to gain social and political influence in its native Kyrgyzstan....
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...