Thread by @OCCRP

🇰🇬 Transparency is rapidly disappearing in Kyrgyzstan, Central Asia’s most democratic country, leaving journalists and citizens with fewer resources to expose corruption.

Here's how the Kyrgyz gov’t has enabled itself to operate in the shadows. (Thread)

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2) Kyrgyzstan was the only country in Central Asia where data on the wealth of civil servants and politicians has been available for years.

But under the leadership of President Sadyr Japarov, these declarations could soon be made secret.

3) The Japarov administration has also proposed allowing the “legalization” of public officials’ undocumented assets, including those obtained by criminal means.

4) Then there are changes to public procurement laws.

State companies are now no longer required to hold tenders or publish data on purchases.

That means one third of all budget expenditures will go into the shadows.

5) Online databases have disappeared, and journalists have been prevented from observing elections.

And these attacks have been met with little to no active protest from Kyrgyzstan’s exhausted civil society.

See the story for much more.
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6) This analysis was written by our friends at @kloopnews — Kyrgyz journalists who have spent years holding their government accountable. They’ll keep doing so.

For just one example, see our joint #PlunderandPatronage investigation. occrp.org/en/plunder-and…