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When police closing roads and President Emomali Rakhmon black fleet of Mercedes-Benz hightails through the capital of Tajikistan several times a day, congestion resulting cause a fair amount of grumbling.
But the discontent is not limited to Dushanbe Apparently the Berlin authorities are irritated as they say hundreds of luxury cars in Tajikistan were stolen from German streets and are used by the president and his family, according to a media report German and despite Berlin's repeated requests to correct the issue, the Tajik officials ignore calls.
Thanks to GPS technology, German investigators have traced about 200 German luxury vehicles stolen in Tajikistan, 93 BMW, Deutsche Welle reports quoting the German Bild tabloid.
There has long had detailed rumors in the Western diplomatic community in Dushanbe that most luxury cars ply the streets of Dushanbe were stolen in Europe and traded somewhere along the way, for the heroin, and the Tajik police officials are not willing to solve the problem.
It is, according to Bild, the dispute goes to the highest levels of the Tajik government and a recent bilateral meeting in Berlin was canceled because the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Tajikistan did not want to deal with uncomfortable questions of Deutsche Welle.
When learned this, Justice Minister Thomas Berlin Heilmann, he wrote a letter to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs German in which he noted that most of these stolen cars now belong to people who are connected to the President of Tajikistan by economic and family ties, Bild reports at the request of Heilmann, former Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle summoned the Tajik ambassador.
According to Bild, the German Foreign Ministry has appealed repeatedly to Tajiks on this issue without success The Tajik authorities refuse to return stolen cars In October, former Foreign Minister Hamrokhon Zarifi at the last minute refused visit Berlin, the government intended to include the issue of stolen cars in the agenda.
Ignoring a problem is pretty much the standard operating procedure in the government of Tajikistan is no doubt, if the reports are true, nobody wants to say Rakhmon he pony for his own Benz.
Updated December 20 AFP and The Wall Street Journal confirmed most of the account with German officials of the Tajik embassy in Berlin denied the allegations.
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