A Kyrgyz Custom Official s Luxury Getaways December 18, 2020
“You can’t forbid living beautifully!” wrote Amanda Turgunova.
Judging by her online presence, Turgunova should know. The social media accounts of this Kyrgyz jet-setter show a gilded life, in which she wears Dolce & Gabbana dresses, dines in extravagant restaurants and enjoys a new Lexus SUV a “gift from ❤️❤️❤️.”
That ❤️ refers to her husband Raimbek Matraimov, the former deputy head of Kyrgyzstan’s National Customs Service. His name has become a byword for scandal in this Central Asian country. Many people in Kyrgyzstan have long believed the Matraimov family to be extremely rich, earning him the popular nickname “Raim Million.” The exact extent of that wealth was never clear until recently.
The Matraimovs Karven Cottage
December 14, 2020
Reporters used open-source investigative techniques to discover a cottage the Matraimov family frequented near Lake Issyk-Kul, Kyrgyzstan’s biggest tourist destination.
The investigation was based on the social-media accounts of Uulkan Turgunova, the wife of Raimbek Matraimov, Kyrgyzstan’s former deputy chief of customs. Among friends and on social-media, Turgunova goes by the name “Amanda.”
Between 2015 and 2019, Turgunova posted multiple collages on Instagram and the Russian social network Odnoklassniki showing her and her children at the Karven Four Seasons resort.
We know where these photos were taken because she added the label “Karven 4-Season”:
CREDIT: Turgunova/Odnoklassniki