He was in prison for kidnapping, but three months later he became the President of Kyrgyzstan: Who is Sadyr Japarov?
Kyrgyz President Japarov claimed that he could already predict what would happen in the country decades later: "God gave me the ability to see the future." Japarov, who collected nearly 80 percent of the votes in the Central Asian country of Kyrgyzstan, became the sixth president of the country.