US to repatriate assets stolen by Bakiyevs to Kyrgyzstan

BISHKEK (TCA) — On February 25, the Senior Bureau Official in the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of South and Central Asian Affairs, Ambassador Alice G. Wells, and Kyrgyzstan’s Minister of Finance Baktygul Jeenbaeva announced the repatriation of stolen assets to the Government of the Kyrgyz Republic arising from the corruption and theft of government funds by the regime of former President Kurmanbek Bakiyev (who was ousted in 2010) and his son Maxim Bakiyev. Continue reading