Kyrgyz President Sadyr Japarov has drastically decreased transparency into public spending and behind the scenes investment projects are being implemented by companies owned by people who appear to be close to him, according to an investigation by the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP) and two Kyrgyz media outlets, Temirov Live and Kloop. Reporters identified at least 11 major projects costing hundreds of millions of dollars that Japarov’s government has initiated that are being managed by a body controlled by the populist strongman, namely the Presidential Administrative…
