It just seems more logical than the court getting the message, but not the tax inspector, unless the gov wants to demonstrate that sometimes you can win a case. But that’s a bit too subtle even for the East.

You know how sneaky Western NGOs are!

In the case of CHF, what this tells me is that only local employees are lower than the belly-dragging INGOs that employ them. Plus, noone needs employees of other Karshi enterprises getting any ideas (CHF may have been a salt mine on a summer day, but was it the worst employer in town?) Also, there’s an announcement today that CHF is being inspected by MinJust.

With Mercy Corps, given that there were large tax penalties being considered, one wonders whether MC struck a deal to leave quietly.

So the verdict’s not in. Perhaps the Gov. hasn’t let down its vigilance of the fifth column in exchange for a few coins flung from the carriage of neo-imperialist Europe. One can only hope.