15:45, 23 августа 2023, Bishkek - 24.kg news agency , Aida DZHUMASHOVA
A suspect in the withdrawal of funds from the country was detained on the island of Madagascar. Press service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Kyrgyzstan reported.
The 40-year-old man, having entered in a criminal conspiracy with employees of one of the banks of the republic, illegally withdrew money from the country. «Damage to the legally protected interests of the state was caused in the amount of $ 23 million,» the ministry said.
Own sources informed 24.kg news agency that this is a defendant in Keremet Bank case. According to preliminary data, the man was delivered to Kyrgyzstan.
«He was wanted by Interpol. He was brought to Bishkek by six law enforcement officers. He was taken into custody by a court decision,» the sources said.
Earlier, the Prosecutor General’s Office initiated a criminal case under the articles «Money laundering», «Fraud» and «Forgery of documents» of the Criminal Code of the Kyrgyz Republic. Investigators of the supervisory authority detained the deputy chairman of the Board of the bank Maksat Dadybaev, two employees of the financial institution, as well as the director of the Bishkek branch. The deputy head of the Board was placed in the guardhouse of the capital’s garrison, the rest — in the remand center 1 in Bishkek. In February 2023, a criminal investigator of the security service of the State Committee for National Security was detained. Later it became known that two of the five defendants in the Keremet Bank case compensated for damage in the amount of 2 million soms.