Adilet Ulukmanov (Kyrgyzstan) his partner Igor Kantsev (Germany), their companies Aska-Tur, Extrem-tours, Hunting Club Taiga cashed 8700 $US to ship my trophy shot in Kyrgyzstan Nov. 2012; ran away with the money; many other hunters have been ripped off by Adilet ; he does not answer neither phone nor e-mails. was located in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan; he has probabl Internet

I contacted Igor Kantsev on July 2012 for a Marco Polo hunt in Kyrgyzstan. Igor transferred my request to his local partner Adilet Ulukmanov. The two of them choose the dates for the hunt. Adilet wanted the money sent to his personal bank account, not his company account.

I arrived at the main camp on November 23rd  and hunted there fruitlessly for two days on horseback. I was then sent by car to the other camp,  for a maximum of 2 days only, in spite of the fact that the contract states 14 days of which 10 hunting days, where I shot a ram on November 26, 2012. I immediately called my wife by sat phone and had my bank transfer 8000 US$ to Adilet, as requested, for the Marco Polo license. My bank transfer was guaranteed within 48 hours and November 27th is shown on the document as the value date (the date at which the money would be at the Kyrgyz bank). Before departing,we had two visitors  at the camp (I ignore who they were, they looked Kyrgyz); our trophies were hidden and the other hunter and I were told NOT to tell we had shot our rams. Why?

We were back in Bishkek November 30, 2012, and when we met Adilet, he refused to let me take my trophy with me, pretending he had not yet received my money! (Later he wrote he received the money Dec. 4th, 2012, one day after my departure). He told me he would ship my trophy in 3 weeks, before Christmas 2012 (two thousand twelve);  more thanONE YEAR later, June 2014 (two thousand fourteen), I fear I will never see my trophy!

 Adilet has refused to give me a reason for the delay and Igor says he does not know; they also refuse to give me a shipping date and lately they don’t answer neither my e-mails nor my phone calls, in spite of the fact that last June 2013, I also sent 700 US$ by Western Union, as instructed by Adilet, for the shipping.

 Since Igor advertised his hunts in the Hunting Report last August 2013, I have brought my case to the attention of the editor Mrs. Barbara Crown and I am grateful to her for contacting Igor and Adilet about my trophy; so far even her efforts have been fruitless, as you can read in the January 2014 issue of the Hunting Report. In March 2014 The Hunting Report mentions another negative report by another hunter warning to steer clear of Adilet Ulukmanov.

Other hunters and agents have also contacted me about their own similar experience with Adilet and Igor. 

 As a last bit of information to you, Igor is publishing on the Web, without my permission, a picture of myself with my Marco Polo, to accompany his advertising.

 For months I have not heard neither from Adilet nor from Igor and I doubt that I will ever get my trophy, which as stated above is fully paid, including the shipping. Barbara Crown of the Hunting Report calls Adilet behavior a hold up. It also seems that Adilet has moved away from Bishkek for an unknown destination.