President Sadyr Japarov sought to rebut public whispers of nepotism and grand corruption in Kyrgyzstan in a recent interview with the country’s official news agency. But his responses seemed to raise more questions than they resolved about the connections between public finances and the private interests of presidentially connected individuals. In granting an interview to the Kabar News Agency, Japarov was ostensibly responding to complaints that a company controlled by the son of the president’s chief lieutenant, State Security Services (GKNB) chief Kamchybek Tashiev, was improperly benefitin…