
U.S. Made Fuel Deals With Firms Linked to Ex-Kyrgyz Leader in 2001 — Paper mosnews \|\| December 02, 2005 During the U.S.-led war in Afghanistan in 2001, Washington made deals for jet fuel supplies to a U.S. air base in Kyrgyzstan with two companies linked to relatives of the then-Kyrgyz president, The New York Times writes. The deals, which may have benefited Askar Akayev and his family by hundreds of millions of dollars, are under investigation by Kyrgyz prosecutors and the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation, the daily said. Since Akayev’s abrupt departure in March following opposition protests, the Kyrgyz government of President Kurmanbek Bakiyev has been demanding higher U.S. payments for the use of the Manas air base in the Kyrgyz capital, Bishkek, the AFP news agency reports. “We are currently the only country in the region willing to provide the United States with an air base,” Zamira Sydykova, the Kyrgyz ambassador to Washington, was quoted as telling The New York Times. Uzbekistan in July gave the United States six months to close its only other Central Asian air base. Article Posted at www.KnowledgeDrivenRevolution.com “Over the last four years the U.S. has paid little in the way of rent. Yet at the same time, the U.S. was paying inflated fuel prices to companies stolen by the family of the former president,” added the ambassador. The Kyrgyz government insists the United States knew the two companies they were dealing with — Manas International Services Ltd and Aalam Services Ltd — had ties with the Akayev family. Asked by the newspaper, Pentagon spokeswoman Lana Hampton said there was “nothing per se improper” in a foreign leader’s family ownership of companies dealing with the U.S. government, but refused to clarify whether the Pentagon knew in 2001 that the two firms had ties to the Akayevs. An FBI report given to Kyrgyz prosecutors, a copy of which was also handed to The New York Times, said the two companies may have been involved in money laundering through accounts in Citibank in New York and the Dutch bank ABM Amro. The documents also said the two Kyrgyz firms had transactions with “a myriad of suspicious U.S. shell companies” associated with Akayev, his family and arms traffickers, said the daily. About KDR \| \| Home \| \| Weekly Features Archive	Weekly Weekly Features Archive
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U.S. Made Fuel Deals With Firms Linked to Ex-Kyrgyz Leader in 2001 — Paper

mosnews || December 02, 2005

During the U.S.-led war in Afghanistan in 2001, Washington made deals for jet fuel supplies to a U.S. air base in Kyrgyzstan with two companies linked to relatives of the then-Kyrgyz president, The New York Times writes.

The deals, which may have benefited Askar Akayev and his family by hundreds of millions of dollars, are under investigation by Kyrgyz prosecutors and the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation, the daily said. Since Akayev’s abrupt departure in March following opposition protests, the Kyrgyz government of President Kurmanbek Bakiyev has been demanding higher U.S. payments for the use of the Manas air base in the Kyrgyz capital, Bishkek, the AFP news agency reports.

“We are currently the only country in the region willing to provide the United States with an air base,” Zamira Sydykova, the Kyrgyz ambassador to Washington, was quoted as telling The New York Times. Uzbekistan in July gave the United States six months to close its only other Central Asian air base.

Article Posted at www.KnowledgeDrivenRevolution.com

“Over the last four years the U.S. has paid little in the way of rent. Yet at the same time, the U.S. was paying inflated fuel prices to companies stolen by the family of the former president,” added the ambassador.

The Kyrgyz government insists the United States knew the two companies they were dealing with — Manas International Services Ltd and Aalam Services Ltd — had ties with the Akayev family. Asked by the newspaper, Pentagon spokeswoman Lana Hampton said there was “nothing per se improper” in a foreign leader’s family ownership of companies dealing with the U.S. government, but refused to clarify whether the Pentagon knew in 2001 that the two firms had ties to the Akayevs.

An FBI report given to Kyrgyz prosecutors, a copy of which was also handed to The New York Times, said the two companies may have been involved in money laundering through accounts in Citibank in New York and the Dutch bank ABM Amro. The documents also said the two Kyrgyz firms had transactions with “a myriad of suspicious U.S. shell companies” associated with Akayev, his family and arms traffickers, said the daily.

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