11:40, 05 июля 2024, Bishkek - 24.kg news agency , Gulmira MAKANBAI KYZY
Fake passports of Kyrgyzstan were issued to foreign extremists in Osh region. The press center of the State Committee for National Security (SCNS) reported.
It was established that official documents were systematically manufactured in Kara-Suu district for foreign citizens involved in activities of religious extremist organizations through the detected channel, on the basis of which the latter were legalized in Kyrgyzstan, illegally obtaining citizenship of the Kyrgyz Republic.
As part of the criminal case initiated under Article 379 of the Criminal Code of the Kyrgyz Republic «Forgery of documents,» searches were carried out in the houses of two citizens and forms of medical birth certificates, death certificates with official seals, and passports of citizens of the Kyrgyz Republic and neighboring states were confiscated. In addition, prohibited extremist materials and leaflets of Hizb ut-Tahrir were found.
Work is underway to identify other persons involved, who assisted in the illegal obtaining of passports and other documents.