How the UK’s property market is serving as a money-laundering vehicle for the world’s criminal and corrupt. The son of former Kyrgyz President Kurmanbek Bakiyev lives in a £3.5 million mansion in the Borough of Reigate and Banstead in Surrey, despite being convicted in his homeland of the attempted murder of a UK citizen and […]

Update, July 18: A trusty source close to Washington tells EurasiaNet.org that Economics Minister Temir Sariev’s allegations are “way off” and characterized him as a “populist” with an unclear agenda. But someone is going to be very unpopular when that money doesn’t come home. Stay tuned. The son of Kyrgyzstan’s deposed dictator might be living […]