Asia

How Formations House, working through a smooth-talking salesman, sold Gambia a fake bill of goods.

Formations House created and sold companies based in a Gambian offshore zone — that the government says never existed.

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...

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

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...

Leaked report shows Russian oligarch Mikhail Abyzov moved a fortune offshore through the Swedish bank.

When Lithuania’s AB Bankas Snoras imploded in 2011, its main shareholders, Vladimir Antonov and Raimondas Baranauskas, had...

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.