The State Committee for National Security of Kyrgyzstan (SCNS) detained close relatives of members of an organized crime group who were extorting money from businessmen on the Kyrgyz-Kazakh border. The press center of the SCNS reported.
According to it, the transnational criminal group organized a sustainable criminal scheme at a checkpoint on the Kyrgyz-Kazakh border to extort and collect money from private entrepreneurs working in the Kyrgyz Republic.
A criminal case was initiated under Article 231 «Economic smuggling» of the Criminal Code of the Kyrgyz Republic. Citizens of Kyrgyzstan were detained.
