{"id":3133,"date":"2020-12-20T14:34:26","date_gmt":"2020-12-20T14:34:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.radiofree.org\/2020\/12\/20\/revealed-the-luxury-lifestyle-of-alleged-kyrgyz-crime-kingpin-2\/"},"modified":"2020-12-20T14:34:26","modified_gmt":"2020-12-20T14:34:26","slug":"revealed-the-luxury-lifestyle-of-alleged-kyrgyz-crime-kingpin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2020\/12\/20\/revealed-the-luxury-lifestyle-of-alleged-kyrgyz-crime-kingpin\/","title":{"rendered":"Revealed: The Luxury Lifestyle Of Alleged Kyrgyz Crime Kingpin"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"ccb_single_video_player \" data-controls=\"1\" data-autohide=\"1\" data-fs=\"1\" data-theme=\"dark\" data-color=\"red\" data-iv_load_policy=\"3\" data-modestbranding=\"1\" data-rel=\"0\" data-showinfo=\"1\" data-autoplay=\"0\" data-disablekb=\"0\" data-nocookie=\"1\" data-aspect_ratio=\"16x9\" data-width=\"640\" data-video_position=\"above-content\" data-volume=\"100\" data-video_id=\"ZdQNKlbHI3w\" style=\"width:640px; height:360px; max-width:100%;\"><!-- player container --><\/div>\n<p>Jetting around the world on trips to Dubai, Turkey, London, and other locations. Staying at hotels costing $10,000 a night. Children dressed in matching Burberry outfits. This has been the life of the wife of former Kyrgyz customs official Raimbek Matraimov, even though her husband\u2019s declared salary was only around $1,000 a month. Last week, the United States slapped sanctions on Matraimov and his wife for alleged corruption.<\/p>\n<p>A new investigation dives into the opulent lifestyle led by Matraimov and his relatives. Together with the OCCRP, the Kyrgyz news site Kloop, and the investigative group Bellingcat, RFE\/RL reporters based this investigation largely on the social-media posts of Matraimov\u2019s wife.<\/p>\n<p>Using geolocation and other open-source techniques, they revealed a previously unknown Dubai penthouse linked by the Matraimovs, as well as a link between the family and Kyrgyzstan\u2019s most notorious crime boss, Kamchy Kolbaev, through an exclusive lakeside resort he controls.<\/p>\n<p>Kyrgyzstan\u2019s government is now grappling with what to do about Matraimov, who is currently under house arrest on corruption allegations but remains extremely well-connected. <\/p>\n<p>This new investigation gives the authorities plenty of leads to follow.<\/p>\n<p>Read it here:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rferl.org\/a\/matraimov-dubai-kyrgyzstan-corruption-luxury-lifestyle\/30996456.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/www.rferl.org\/a\/matraimov-dubai-kyrgyzstan-corruption-luxury-lifestyle\/30996456.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>#Kyrgyzstan #Corruption #InvestigativeJournalism<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.radiofree.org\/2020\/12\/20\/revealed-the-luxury-lifestyle-of-alleged-kyrgyz-crime-kingpin-2\/\">Radio Free<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jetting around the world on trips to Dubai, Turkey, London, and other locations. Staying at hotels costing $10,000 a night. Children dressed in matching Burberry outfits. This has\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3133"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3133"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3133\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3134,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3133\/revisions\/3134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}