By Eurasianet An official in Kyrgyzstan’s presidential administration has said that the corrupt and once-powerful former customs official Rayimbek Matraimov hired a gang of armed criminals to assassinate the country’s leadership. The claim made on March 23 by the head of the presidential administration, Kanybek Tumanbayev, came in conjunction with an announcement from the State Committee for National Security, or GKNB, about the arrest of five alleged members of a transnational organised crime group said to be planning assassinations in Kyrgyzstan. It was not said who specifically was to be ta…