The state-owned airline Air Kyrgyzstan has not actually existed since 2018. Director of the Civil Aviation Agency, Alexander Nastaev, told at a meeting of Ishenim parliamentary faction.
According to him, Air Kyrgyzstan has not been operating flights since 2017, and since 2018 it has neither aircraft nor regular flights.
«There is also no staff. All employees have been fired, there are only the director and accountant. It legally exists as an open joint stock company, but in fact it does not work. Their Boeing plane is at the airport, but it does not undergo maintenance. It just stands there like scrap metal. As far as I know, the state-owned company has a debt of $3.5 million,» Alexander Nastaev said.
Recall, the State Committee for National Security revealed facts of corruption in Air Kyrgyzstan OJSC in 2021, 100 percent of shares of which are owned by the state. Employees of the Accounts Chamber, colluding with the management of the airline, concealed the presence of damage caused to the state in the amount of $3,160,903 during scheduled audits.
