More than 60 percent of Batken-Comfort market shares transferred to state

The controlling stake in Batken-Comfort market became the property of the state. The State Committee for National Security of Kyrgyzstan (SCNS) reported.

According to it, in 2000, former deputy of the Parliament, ex-first vice prime minister of the Kyrgyz Republic Askar Shadiev, using the powers of the Chairman of the Committee on Property, Privatization and Licensing of the Parliament, acquired a land plot (Batken-Comfort market) with an area of about 3 hectares, located in the center of the capital, from municipal property at a reduced cost. The plot was registered in the name of his close relatives (S. Shadiev and M. Shadiev).

They voluntarily transferred to the state revenue a controlling stake in BGATP CJSC — 64.38 percent.

«On January 9, 2024, the State Property Management Agency replaced the management of BGATP CJSC as the main shareholder. Rent payments for market retail space in the amount of about 10 million soms per month (120 million soms per year) from January 2024 will go to the state budget,» the SCNS said.

The remaining part of the shares of BGATP CJSC is registered in the name of Askar Shadiev’s wife, Asel Shadieva. Since 2020, she has been internationally wanted by Interpol. As the state committee added, measures are being taken to confiscate the shares through court and return them to state ownership.