BishkekPresident Sadyr Japarov says he ordered a Bakiyev-era financier to mine crypto.
30 megawatts of a state hydropower plant now feed a private mining farm in Kyrgyzstan.
Of Kambar-Ata 2’s 120 megawatts, 90 reach the grid, and the 30 stranded by weak lines go to mining.
A 2023 cabinet decree grants the firm 10 years, the energy ministry confirmed then, not Japarov’s 4 to 5.
Japarov says Alexei Shirshov hands the farm to the state grid operator in two years.
How each outlet framed it
- Kloop leans critical
- documents Japarov's own admission that he proposed Shirshov's mining at the state Kambar-Ata 2 plant, and that the 2022 detention was a corruption case
- Kloop leans critical
- foregrounds Japarov's quoted attack on Maxim Bakiev as stingy and sets out the former Bakiev associates who lost assets, in Russian-language detail