Just before Jangibay Rachimov, known as Yanik, left prison to die, he called his family at home. His wife Gulnara had to cry, she couldn’t keep talking, so Janik’s daughter answered the phone. “If I don’t come back, you’ll get a lot of money,” he promised the eight-year-old. “You’re going to live in the lap of luxury, daughter!”

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