Tajik Aluminium Company

The Tajik Aluminium Company (Tajik:Ширкати Алюминийи Тоҷик; Russian:Таджикская алюминиевая компания), abbreviated as TALCO (Tajik/Russian: ТАЛКО) headquartered in Tursunzoda, Tajikistan, runs the largest aluminum manufacturing plant in Central Asia, and is Tajikistan's chief industrial asset. Emomalii Rahmon, the President of Tajikistan, personally oversees TALCO and according to The Economist, "Each year, TALCO produces hundreds of millions of dollars in profits that are routed to a shell company in the British Virgin Islands".