«My friends helped me. They paid for me: one — $ 115,000, the second — $ 135,000 and the third — $ 250,000,» said Abdymanap Karchygaev, a representative of Renaissance Agro-Industrial Corporation LLC, at a press conference today.
According to him, journalists overblew a scandal around his name and the deal.
At the same time, Abdymanap Karchygaev does not know where the media received this data from. He said that information about the deal appeared on the American website after he paid the first $ 500,000.
«I have never used the name of Sadyr Japarov, I have not sat next to him, I have never set up him. I turned to him only once with a request for protection, if big money come to me. I personally signed the contract with the consulting company through Renaissance agro-industrial corporation. I do not know about its previous activities. The man, Ari Ben-Menashe, has been the president of the consulting firm based in Montreal since 1993. I signed the contract with him for $ 8,600 billion. At least $ 600 million should be a grant for COVID-19, $ 4 billion — to raise the economy, $ 2 billion — to pay off the debt to China, and $ 2 billion — to the agricultural sector. Plants and factories should be built in the future,» Abdymanap Karchygaev told.
«I do this for the welfare of the people, I am not a president, not a prime minister, not a diplomat. I am for the people. For this purpose, I signed the contract. Sadyr Japarov does not know about this either, there is no his signature, neither the prime minister nor the government is mentioned anywhere. When I started work, Sadyr Japarov was in prison. Sooronbai Jeenbekov and Kubatbek Boronov did not receive me. The Foreign Ministry said that they understood that I wanted to help pay off the debt to the PRC, but this person (Ari Ben-Menashe. — Note of 24.kg news agency) was engaged in the arms trafficking,» he added.
Abdymanap Karchygaev said that he did not have other $ 500,000 to pay the second part of the amount under the contract with the lobbyist company. But friends provided him with a building, which he will provide as a pledge to receive the required amount. He refused to voice the names of friends who helped him to pay $ 1 million.
ForeignLobby.com reported earlier that the acting President of Kyrgyzstan Sadyr Japarov signed a $ 1 million lobbying deal in order to receive international assistance in connection with the economic crisis that contributed to his predecessor’s downfall. It was clarified that the office of the President Sadyr Japarov signed the contract with former Israeli military intelligence officer Ari Ben-Menashe on October 30.
The agreement provides for Ben-Menashe’s firm, Montreal-based Dickens & Madson Canada, to lobby governments in the United States and the Middle East for assistance to the Central Asian republic.
