Reports were published in the Federal Republic that the family of the Tajik president was driving luxury limousines that had been stolen in Germany.

Tajikistan's foreign office spokesman at the time, Abdulfajs Atoev, immediately rejected these allegations as implausible.

Germany's assistance in Central Asia since 1992 has been specifically aimed at building a market economy, promoting the financial and health sectors, and reforming the legal system.

The primary goal (as of 2005) of the German government in Central Asia is to contribute to sustainable internal and external stabilization, with priority given to poverty reduction.

The Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) sees the fight against poverty and the associated crisis prevention and peacekeeping as its main tasks.

[8] After Catherine the Great offered privileges to foreign peasants in the 1760s, a mass resettlement of Germans began in what was then the Russian Empire.

During World War II, the number of Germans in Central Asia increased as a result of their deportation to the European part of the Soviet Union.

Since the beginning of the 21st century, however, many thousands of Germans have emigrated from Tajikistan, leaving an estimated 1,500 remaining today.