NEW: Credit Suisse maintained a bank account for the wife of a Kyrgyz public official even after he fled the country and was charged with abusing his position to illegally grant mining licenses. #SuisseSecrets 1/ occrp.org/en/suisse-secr…
Natalia Kurmanlieva, the now-former spouse of Kapar Kurmanliev, held an account at the lender. Its balance reached 1.4 million Swiss francs. She appears to have no independent source of income, while he had a modest gov’t salary. 2/
Kurmanliev was convicted in absentia by a Kyrgyz court in 2014. But it wasn’t the first time he’d run into trouble -- he was accused of embezzling state property in 2002, six years before his wife opened her account. 3/
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