Kyrgyzstan: Where Laws Don’t Necessarily Pertain to Crime Kingpins | EurasiaNet.org
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For those keeping score at home: the tally in Kyrgyzstan in the latest rule-of-law contest is now organized crime 1 - justice system 0.
And it looks like the bad guys are positioned to pad their lead. Photographed recently in his courtroom cell wearing a crisp white dress shirt, a black blazer and jeans, alleged Kyrgyz crime kingpin Kamchi Kolbayev did not have the look of a man facing a lengthy jail sentence for violent crimes and drug trafficking. His calm demeanor, according to a local criminologist, suggested confidence that the rule of law could be bent once again in his favor.