How to Build a Customs Empire
For years, two powerful Central Asian families colluded to build a trading empire built on smuggling. Now, through...
For years, two powerful Central Asian families colluded to build a trading empire built on smuggling. Now, through...
The Matraimov family has long used its questionable wealth to gain social and political influence in its native...
Raimbek Matraimov is a powerful Kyrgyz political operator known for his massive wealth. This investigation into...
A private resort village on the shores of Kyrgyzstan’s Lake Issyk Kul is among the clues that connect former...
Not much has changed in Kyrgyzstan’s customs service since Matraimov’s firing and conviction. His successor,...
Here's how reporters used open-source investigative techniques to discover a new property apparently owned by the...
Reporters used open-source investigative techniques to discover a cottage the Matraimov family frequented near...
An open-source investigation suggests that the families of Raimbek Matraimov, Kyrgyzstan’s disgraced former deputy...
According to an associate, Kyrgyzstan’s former deputy customs chief had to raise money from friends and relatives...
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...
Enraged over an election they saw as undermined by rampant vote-buying, thousands stormed Kyrgyzstan’s parliament...
Over the span of five years, one man funnelled hundreds of millions of dollars out of Central Asia. What he knew...
A money launderer told journalists what he knew about a secretive smuggling empire and a senior Kyrgyz official...
Despite receiving a death threat, the operator of a massive Kyrgyz money-laundering scheme shared hundreds of...
The wife of Raimbek Matraimov, a powerful former Kyrgyz customs chief, has a joint investment in Dubai with a...
Nearly half of donations received by a well-known Kyrgyz charity run by the powerful Matraimov family have been...
One of the last claims made by Aierken Saimaiti, a self-confessed money launderer who was murdered in Istanbul...