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A courtroom hearing was held in the bedroom of the 75-year-old bedbound mother of a slain Kyrgyzstan crime lord after she was charged with laundering some of her son’s ill-gotten gains. Mafia boss Kamchibek Kolbaev (aka Kamchybek Asanbek) was gunned down in broad daylight at a Bishkek gastropub in October last year in a security operation. Sanctioned by the US in 2011 as a major global drug trafficking suspect, he was seen as one of Central Asia’s most powerful men in the shadows. His mother, Maya Alieva, is charged with laundering more than a dozen assets registered in her name. Prosecutors l…

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