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Germany is angry Tajikistan because friends of the President are stolen driving German cars.
Tajik President Imomali Rakhmon Dieter Nagl AFP Getty Images.
Friends, relatives and business associates of the President of Tajikistan lead in stolen cars off the streets of Germany, the German Government German authorities have tried to raise the issue with Tajik officials since at least May, they confirmed Thursday after a German tabloid broke the story.
It is not known if reports President Imomali Rakhmon is suspected of personally led a stolen German car but German investigators apparently have about 200 cars traced stolen luxury, 93 BMW, members of the inner circle of Rakhmon and associates of his family.
Minister of Regional Justice Berlin raised the issue with the German foreign minister in May, sending a letter outlining details of the investigation German and Lithuanian investigators had used GPS technology to track cars Tajikistan, 3,500 miles apart, they d tried asking Tajik officials about cars, he said in the letter, but questions remained unanswered According enough German newspaper Deutsche Welle, officials of the German Foreign Ministry raised the issue several times, but Tajikistan refused to return the cars.
The Central Asian republic of Tajikistan - there is no work around this - a reputation for political corruption, it is ranked 154th out of 175 on Transparency International this year the index of corruption linked with Congo and a place above Zimbabwe Rakhmon has ruled the country since 1992, shortly after broke away from the Soviet Union, the border country of Afghanistan and is considered a major source of heroin trafficking and other organized criminal enterprises.
The German survey seems to confirm the longstanding speculation among Western diplomats based in the Tajik capital, Dushanbe, according to David Trilling EurasiaNet that many luxury cars ply the streets of Dushanbe were stolen and traded in Europe, somewhere along the way, for heroin.
On Friday, the day after the story broke, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Tajikistan announced that it would cooperate with German investigators, but that the allegations were unfounded.
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