17:36, 12 апреля 2023, Bishkek - 24.kg news agency , Gulmira Makanbai kyzy
Two defendants in the criminal case, who were detained on the fact of financial violations at Kumtor Gold Company CJSC, were placed under house arrest. Prosecutor General of Kyrgyzstan Kurmankul Zulushev announced at a meeting of the Parliament.
He noted that the supervisory authority opened four criminal cases for 1,146,449,161 soms.
«At least 830,826,165 soms of the damage were compensated. Two out of four detained employees were placed under house arrest. Investigators interrogate Tengiz Bolturuk again. He refuses to testify. More than 80 percent of the damage has been recovered. The investigation is almost over. The reason for the delay is compensation for the damage caused. The case will be sent to court in near future,» Kurmankul Zulushev said.
Report of the Prosecutor General on the work for 2022 is heard in Parliament.
The former head of Kumtor Gold Company, Tengiz Bolturuk, in his appeal to Sadyr Japarov, asked for forgiveness for not meeting his expectations and failing to put an end to corruption at Kumtor. Earlier, his wife Ilmira Alpysbayeva also wrote that her husband was allegedly being tortured. Tengiz Bolturuk himself denied the statement of his wife.
Tengiz Bolturuk and Ryspek Toktogulov were dismissed from all the positions they held. It was reported that the Prosecutor General’s Office began a detailed check. It resulted in three criminal cases with preliminary damage to the state of 1 billion soms. As a result, the former external manager of Kumtor was detained and placed in the remand center of the State Committee for National Security until April 10, 2023. Tengiz Bolturuk himself does not admit his guilt. He stated that all the accusations were false. His lawyer says that the accused is ready to cooperate with the investigation.