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It's a Gas: Funny Business in the Turkmen-Ukraine Gas Trade

Global Witness · 2006

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2026-09-01
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Published 25 July 2006. Full report PDF at globalwitness.org/documents/92/its_a_gas.pdf.

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EstablishedGlobal Witness reported in 2006 that most of Turkmenistan's gas revenue was held in off-budget foreign-currency funds created by presidential decree and under Niyazov's personal control, mainly the Foreign Exchange Reserve Fund at Deutsche Bank, and that about 75% of state spending appeared to take place off-budget.