Officials of Kok-Talaa transport control point were detained in Batken region of Kyrgyzstan. Press center of the State Committee for National Security reported.
The investigation established that the detainees were engaged in a systematic extortion of money from the drivers of heavy vehicles.
«On November 13, the head of Batken territorial department of the Agency for Automobile, Water Transport, Weight and Dimension Control and the chief inspector of Kok-Talaa transport control point were detained while taking a bribe,» the statement says.