All criminal cases against the former Minister of Health of Kyrgyzstan Alymkadyr Beishenaliev were terminated due to the absence of corpus delicti. His attorney Kaisyn Abakirov announced.
Earlier, the Prosecutor General’s Office opened seven criminal cases against the former head of the Ministry of Health:
- One criminal case was initiated on corruption;
- Two criminal cases — on extortion;
- Four criminal cases — on abuse of office and conclusion of a knowingly useless contract.
The Prosecutor General’s Office reported that Alymkadyr Beishenaliev in 2021 unreasonably bought 2,460 million doses of the vaccine. The money was transferred to offshore accounts.
«Due to the fact that more than 3 million doses of the vaccine were unnecessary, the remaining vaccines expire. The state suffered damage in the amount of 1,581,474,315 soms,» the supervisory authority noted.
In addition to the head of the ministry, Deputy Minister Uluk-Bek Bekturganov, Director of the Republican Center for Immunoprophylaxis Gulbara Ishenapysova and head of the Department of Medicines and Medical Products Sultan Satarbekov were detained within the case on corruption in the purchase of vaccines against COVID-19. Later, the head of the Ministry of Health, his former deputy and director of the Republican Immunoprophylaxis Center were placed under house arrest.
