14:09, 01 февраля 2022, Bishkek - 24.kg news agency , Aida DZHUMASHOVA
Former prime minister of Kyrgyzstan Igor Chudinov was interrogated at the Investigation Department of the Prosecutor General’s Office within the criminal case against a deputy Adakhan Madumarov. Own sources informed 24.kg news agency.
It is specified that investigative actions within the Madumarov’s case continue. Igor Chudinov was questioned as a witness.
«In addition, all members of the delegation who went to Batken region in 2009, headed by the former Minister of Transport and Communications Nurlan Sulaimanov, are interrogated. It is assumed that he will be questioned too. However, according to some reports, the former member of the Cabinet is now in hospital,» the sources told.
In 2009, being a secretary of the Security Council, Adakhan Madumarov signed with the Tajik side the protocol of the working meeting of the heads of state bodies of Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan under the leadership of the Secretaries of the Security Councils of the two countries. According to the document, the Kyrgyz side leased a plot of land from Tajikistan for 49 years, 5 hectares in size and 275 meters long. The protocol was adopted after the negotiations in Khudzhent. Officials were harmonizing domestic procedures for signing an intergovernmental agreement to ban economic activity along the state border line until demarcation and delimitation are completed.
Tajikistan still considers these 5 hectares as its land. Kyrgyzstan calls this land a disputed section of the border.
The investigation believes that Madumarov did not have any authority to sign such a protocol.