Raam Matraimov biography

The social networks of his wives tell a lot about the luxurious lifestyle of the Matraimov family with a modest official salary of a customs officer. She knows what he was talking about. In the photographs from this post, published in April of the year, an elegantly dressed Turgunova poses in a clearly expensive restaurant and in the lobby of a chic hotel. Selfie with the signature "Rest is super!

But this is not so. Her husband is Rambek Matraim, who at that time was an official in Kyrgyzstan. According to Eurasianet, Matraimov entered the civil service at the end of the X inspector at customs. He climbed the service ladder and in the year became deputy chairman of the entire department. But his highest official salary barely exceeded dollars a month, according to its declarations.

He became the patron saint of the smuggling empire, which brought multimillion -dollar illegal income. The authors of the investigation found assets for example, real estate in Dubai, which were not in the declarations of Matraimov and which he could not buy for an official salary. Although many in Kyrgyzstan consider the family of mattraimovs very rich for this former official even nicknamed Raim Million, the true scale of his wealth remained unknown.

Now the study of the accounts of his wife and the former nanny of the child in social networks showed a luxurious lifestyle of mattraimovs, inaccessible to the absolute majority of the Kyrgyz people. Most photos for this publication are taken from Turgunova accounts on Instagram and Odnoklassniki. We do not disclose the user's name to protect her private life. For the same purpose, we hid the comments of other users.

The photographs shows that Turgunova was not Amanda, but the Uulkan, the nanny and daughter flew on a private plane, swam on a yacht and stayed in the most luxurious hotels in the world. The cost of things that reporters were able to identify from the photographs of Turgunova during the time that Matraimov was in the civil service is estimated at thousands of dollars.

She published photos of many more luxury items that failed to identify. Turgunova’s social networks also have a lot of evidence that the family bought a penthouse on the m floor of a residential tower in Dubai in a year. She repeatedly published photos of herself and her children when they stayed in this apartment. Although Turgunova often publishes pictures of gifts that Raimbek Matraimov received from her husband, he himself appears in the photographs very rarely - she never showed his face.

These two collages are the only images with him that we found. But the last pictures of Turgunova shows that the family continued expensive trips. Her posts allowed journalists to find a house on the lake in Kyrgyzstan, where the family loved to stop and who indicates the possible connection of Matraimov with the well -known criminal authority of Kamchka Kolbaev. Matraimov did not respond to requests about comments sent through the representatives of the family.

It also failed to take comments from Turgunova with the help of social networks, since all her accounts are closed. Amanda's modest table, journalists received declarations on the property and income of Rambek Matraimov over the years. They show that Matraimov and his wife declared two small apartments in Soviet houses in Osh and Bishkek, the largest cities of Kyrgyzstan.

At the same time, Turgunova’s posts in social networks show that she lived in two much more spacious houses: the mansion in the center of Osh and Penthouse in the so -called “gold square” of Bishkek - as the center of the capital of Kyrgyzstan with the most expensive real estate is informally called. The mansion in Osh appeared in many of its posts. They can see that she arranged luxurious dinners, posed in a large garden with a gazebo, flaunted in fashionable outfits and played with puppies brought from Japan.

Right: Turgunov at the house. Their penthaus with a square of square meters is occupied by the top floor of the building with a golden crown in one of the most prestigious areas of the capital. In many photographs, we see Turgunov against the backdrop of wealthy interiors with large floral compositions, balloons and other jewelry for family celebrations. It is often photographed in an elevator in designer dresses, with expensive bags and jewelry.

Turgunov in the building of the residential complex in Bishkek, where her family lives. After her death in the year, the Bishkek penthouse went to him, and his brother Ruslanbek inherited the mansion in Osh. Traveling abroad of the Matraimov House in Kyrgyzstan is gorgeous, but they loved to travel. Journalists have studied about a hundred photographs of Turgunova from travels that she published since April.

On most of them, only she, her purchases and a luxurious situation around. Some have her children. There is no husband Rambek on them, and it is unclear whether he went with her. Posts show that she rests on a grand scale, preferring five -star hotels in Turkey and Dubai, as well as exotic resorts like the Maldives.

Turgunova enjoys a walk and species of Dubai from a yacht in the Persian Gulf in November.Nevertheless, it is obvious that she led a luxurious lifestyle at the time when Rambek still worked at customs, and after his dismissal. She went to Dubai especially often, and the previous investigation already showed that Turgunova had financial interests there. But in November, she stopped stopping at the hotels, although she continued to go to Dubai.

Social networks explain why. A new portion of posts with photos from a building with luxurious interiors led journalists to previously unknown property in Dubai, which the family probably bought and often used. Penthouse in the Al Fattan tower about the existence of a luxury apartment of Matratovs became known from the Facebook account of a woman who worked for the family.

On the seventh of November, a woman named Teresit published on Facebook video in the new apartment of her employer. This room is the hostess. Come out of here, I don’t want to be noticed. ” We have separate beds, ”she says. Senior and medium. Everyone has their own bed. " Geolocation techniques allowed journalists to determine that the new mattress apartments are a penthouse on the Elite Tower of Al Fattan Marine Tower in the Dubai housing complex Jumeirah Beach Residence.

Such apartments in this area are sold for about a million dollars. How journalists found the penthouse of the Matraimov family in Dubai. But in November, using the leakage data, OCCRP and his partners found that Turgunova spent at least $ 12 million on real estate in Dubai, and also invested an unknown amount in a five -story building under construction.

This was a serious evidence that the assets of Turgunova and her husband exceeded their modest declared income, but, apparently, the authorities were not interested in this. During a visit to the UAE in December, the then President, President, Uboronbai Jeenbekov, met with Kyrgyz citizens living there. During the meeting, the opposition activist Cholpon Abdrakhmanova asked Zheenbekov about the recently discovered Dubai assets of mattress.

Zheenbekov suggested Abdrakhmanova to understand this herself. So you will help. You see, yes? Be sure to go, ”he said, adding that the investigation is ongoing. The results of this investigation, if it really was, never betrayed. On Lake Issyk-Kul, another beloved place of Amanda is Lake Issyk-Kul in Kyrgyzstan, one of the largest mountain lakes of the world and a popular resort.

In the period from the end of the year, she published several photo collages from pictures of her vacation at the Karen Four Seasons resort, where living in the VIP-Kottes is worth dollars per day during the tourist season. By geolocation, journalists were able to determine the cottage in which she stopped. Unlike other nearby cottages, her house is fenced with plantings from trees that hide the inhabitants from prying eyes.

This is how we found him. Officially, this real estate belongs to Dinarkhan Alaychieva, the daughter -in -law of Rambek. But Turgunov very often appeared there. The Kaganat residential complex, located in the resort city of Cholpon-Ata on the shore of the lake, is a closed Club-type cottage village, surrounded by a fence. But the villah found with the help of geolocation, in which Turgunov stopped, there is a separate fence, which ensures an additional level of security.

The representative of the construction company, building Kaganat, told reporters that its owner was Kamchy Kolbaev. Kolbaev is known as an influential figure in the criminal world. Four more local residents confirmed that the complex belongs to Kolbaev. After dismissal in the year, he disappeared from the public field, although in earlier investigations of OCCRP and other publications it was reported that he was busy creating a private business empire in the customs sphere.

Back in early October, Matraimov seemed inviolable. The political party, which he supported, took second place in the parliamentary elections. It seemed that the former official and his allies would form a coalition and continue to dominate the political arena of Kyrgyzstan. Ten days later, President Naroronbai Jeenbekov resigned, which led to a confusing and still not permitted struggle of political forces.

The acting President Sadyr Zhaparov called on the “corrupt officials” to return the stolen assets. And then, on October 20, something that few expected in Kyrgyzstan: Matraimov was arrested and delivered to the State Committee of National Security. What will happen to him next is unknown. Before he was transferred under house arrest, the former official promised to compensate the budget for damage from “criminal actions” at the same time, it was not clear whether he pleaded guilty.

Since then, he began to transfer money to the Ministry of Finance, several million soms at a time. Zhaparov said in an interview that the conclusion of a former official in custody would make it impossible to “return” money to the treasury. By the end of November, he will pay two billion soms of $ 24 million. Therefore, he was released under house arrest.

" The situation raises questions: does the matrams buy freedom in this way?Zheparov’s statements and his promise of the “economic amnesty” for Kyrgyzstan corrupt officials seem to have no legal grounds under them. Recently, the country's special services said that the investigation against Matraimov is ongoing. According to media reports, by December 8, Matraimov paid less than half of the promised.

The true volumes of wealth, which, probably, made, working on state duty with a modest official salary, can forever remain a secret.