Head of Urban Planning Department detained for bribery

The head of the Chui Regional Department for Urban Planning and Architecture and employee of the State Agency for Architecture, Construction, Housing and Communal Services were detained while giving a bribe. Press center of the State Committee for National Security of Kyrgyzstan (SCNS) reported.

The officials gave a bribe of $1,500 to an official of the State Agency for Architecture, Construction and Housing and Communal Services. They wanted to illegally dismiss the chief accountant of the Chui Regional Department for Urban Planning and Architecture.

«The detainees approached an official of the State Construction Committee in order to fire the chief accountant of the regional department. They wanted to initiate an illegal audit with subsequent discreditation. Both suspects were placed in the temporary detention center of the SCNS,» the state committee said.