Comis­sio­ned by Süd­deut­sche Zei­tung Maga­zin, 2014

Ger­man poli­ce has spot­ted hundreds of sto­len cars in the Taji­ki­stan in the last cou­ple of years. Sto­len by the Lithua­ni­an car mafia in Ger­ma­ny, they get fal­se papers and then trans­por­ted to the Cen­tral Asi­an coun­try. Most of them are luxu­ry cars from brands like Mer­ce­des, BMW or Ran­ger Rover. Taji­ki­stan is not wil­ling to give the­se evi­den­ti­al­ly sto­len cars back to their ori­gi­nal owners in Ger­ma­ny. Rumors go that is becau­se some of the them are now owned by the fami­ly of the Tajik pre­si­dent Emo­ma­lii Rahmon.