Shavkat, 59, doesn’t see himself as a criminal. Speaking from a small apartment in Russia, where he now lives with his fourth wife, the Uzbek-born trader details with quiet confidence the life that he’s built – a life that, by law, shouldn’t exist.
“My first wife is Tajik, the second is Afghan, and the third Turkish,” he told Qadam. “Now I live in Russia with my fourth wife, a Tatar. My wives all know each other.”
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Aigerim Turgunbaeva is a Research Fellow at the Turan Research Center.