The Chinese citizen who blew the whistle on the scam was assassinated in Istanbul
was a Chinese citizen. He was shot in a gangland-style killing in Istanbul, the biggest city in Turkey. But the smuggling racket on which he had just blown the whistle was centred on Kyrgyzstan, a poor Central Asian country of 6m which has been a transit point between China and Europe for centuries.
Aierken Saimaiti said his part in the racket had been to launder the proceeds, overseeing the removal from Kyrgyzstan of at least $700m in dirty money between 2011 and 2016. Kyrgyz officials have since admitted that Saimaiti and his associates funnelled nearly $1bn to banks in a dozen countries.
The revelations have caused a furore in Kyrgyzstan. Police have belatedly begun an investigation, questioning Raimbek Matraimov, a former deputy head of the customs service whom Saimaiti had accused of playing a part in the scheme. He denies any wrongdoing, as does his brother, the governor of a district bordering Uzbekistan where much of the smuggling is alleged to have occurred.
Politicians have started blaming one another for the scandal. Sooronbay Jeyenbekov, the president, is trying to shrug off Mr Matraimov’s enthusiastic support for his election campaign in 2017. His predecessor, Almazbek Atambayev, is trying to explain how the smuggling ring became established on his watch.
Street protests have toppled governments twice recently in Kyrgyzstan, in 2005 and 2010. Inevitably, protesters have taken to the streets again, although only in the hundreds so far. Whatever the truth of the various allegations, the feud between the two presidents and the steady flow of scandals do not make anyone in government look good."The bilk road"
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