JULY 5 2012 (The Conway Bulletin) – Security services in Kyrgyzstan said they have detained the minister for social development, Ravshan Sabirov, for allegedly planning to take a bribe. The day before, the security services said, they arrested Mr Sabirov’s assistant for taking a $10,000 bribe, cash he alleged was going to his boss.
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(News report from Issue No. 095, published on July 6 2012)
FEB. 21 2012 (The Conway Bulletin) – A court in Tashkent convicted eight Turkish businessmen of corruption and confiscated their assets. Seven of the businessmen were amnestied and deported to Turkey. One, with joint Uzbek nationality, was sent to prison for three years. The men were arrested last year during raids on a large Tashkent supermarket.
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(News report from Issue No. 78, published on Feb. 23 2012)
FEB. 16 2012 (The Conway Bulletin) – A court in Britain sentenced Mukhtar Ablyazov, the former CEO of BTA Bank, to 22 months in jail for contempt of court. Ablyazov is accused of embezzling $5b. He fled to London in 2009, claiming political asylum, and has since used it as a base to finance Kazakh opposition groups.
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(News report from Issue No. 78, published on Feb. 23 2012)
FEB. 1 2012 (The Conway Bulletin) – The World Bank praised Georgia for defeating corruption and said it is an example to other countries in the region. It said that anti-corruption reforms initiated by President Mikheil Saaskashvili have spiked the myth that corruption is cultural and can’t be beaten.
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(News report from Issue No. 76, published on Feb. 9 2012)
JAN. 24 2012 (The Conway Bulletin) – Police in Tajikistan detained several high-profile anti-narcotics officials for allegedly helping drug smugglers dodge the security services, local media reported. The arrests highlight the extent of corruption in Tajikistan and the collusion between the drug runners and senior officials.
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(News report from Issue No. 74, published on Jan. 26 2012)
DEC. 13 2011 (The Conway Bulletin) – An investigation by the International Boxing Association (AIBA) cleared Azerbaijan of trying to buy two gold medals at next year’s Olympic Games for $9m. The BBC made the bribery allegations during a TV news story. Another separate investigation by the International Olympics Committee (IOC) is due to report next year.
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(News report from Issue No. 70, published on Dec. 22 2011)
DEC. 2 2011 (The Conway Bulletin) – Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili pardoned two Israeli businessmen imprisoned earlier this year for offering a deputy minster a multi-million dollar bribe in October 2010. Roni Fuchs and Zeev Frenkiel had been jailed for 7 and 6-1/2 years souring Georgia-Israel relations.
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(News report from Issue No. 68, published on Dec. 8 2011)
SEPT. 22 2011 (The Conway Bulletin) – A BBC documentary alleged that an Azerbaijani national paid a $9m bribe to the part of the sport’s governing body that organises judges at the Olympic Games, in exchange for guaranteeing two gold medals at next year’s event in London. Azerbaijan and boxing officials vigorously deny the allegations.
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(News report from Issue No. 58, published on Sept. 27 2011)
JULY 29 2011 (The Conway Bulletin) – In a scene reminiscent of Soviet times, several central bankers in Turkmenistan admitted during a broadcast on state television that they had stolen millions of dollars, news agencies reported. The bankers were given lengthy prison sentences.
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(News report from Issue No. 51, published on Aug. 2 2011)
JUNE 6 2011 (The Conway Bulletin) – Hoping to distance his government from the corruption of the past, Kyrgyz PM Almazbek Atambayev promised more transparency in mining tenders, Reuters reported. The fragile coalition government is looking to boost its support and brush off allegations of graft.
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(News report from Issue No. 43, published on June 6 2011)