Scammer pretending to be a policeman arrested in Bishkek

15:17, 22 января 2020, Bishkek - 24.kg news agency , Ruslan KHARIZOV

Scammer pretending to be an employee of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Kyrgyzstan was detained in Bishkek. Press service of the ministry reported.

On January 20, a citizen turned to law enforcement agencies, who said that an unknown man introduced himself as a police officer and threatened to prosecute him, if a woman did not have sex with him. At the same time, he extorted from him 60,000 soms.

The day before, the police caught the suspect red-handed when getting 35,000 soms at one of the foodservice outlets in Bishkek. A service certificate of the Public Control Public Organization and a portable radio station was confiscated from him.

The detainee was placed in a temporary detention center. Investigative measures and check of the detainee’s involvement in other similar crimes are ongoing.