Egor Skobeev transported to SCNS pre-trial detention center

13:04, 03 октября 2019, Bishkek - 24.kg news agency , Aida DZHUMASHOVA

Egor Skobeev, the Head of the Sector of Department for Security, Law, Order and Defence Capacity of the Government’s Office, was transported under guard to the pre-trial detention center of the State Committee for National Security of Kyrgyzstan. Own sources informed 24.kg news agency.

The decision to transfer the detainee from a hospital to the pre-trial detention center was made on September 27.

Lawyer Bashir Zaidov confirmed this information. According to him, Egor Skobeev should have been taken to a clinical hospital of the Department of Presidential Affairs, but then he was transported to the pre-trial detention center.

«We appealed the preventive measure for my client in the Bishkek City Court,» said Bashir Zaidov.

Recall, Egor Skobeev was detained within a criminal case initiated by the Military Prosecutor’s Office against the former president Almazbek Atambayev. He was charged with complicity in corruption. By court decision, he was placed in the pre-trial detention center of SCNS until November 17.