Kyrgyzstan

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...

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

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...

More than a third of Ataturk Park, a beloved green space in Kyrgyzstan’s capital city, has been lost. Over the course of a...

Almost three decades ago, architecture students were promised a brand-new campus on the grounds of Ataturk Park. Instead,...

Kyrgyz authorities wanted to build a hotel complex for foreign delegations in Bishkek’s Ataturk Park. Instead, the public...

One after another, Bishkek city officials bent or broke the law to give prime land to Kyrgyzstan’s most elite citizens.

Kyrgyzstan’s security services are investigating current and former government officials for accepting bribes from a...