19.08.2022
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Kyrgyzstan: Religious Board was enriching by donations of pilgrims

An investigation into financial violations in the Religious Board of Muslims of Kyrgyzstan revealed major financial machinations. This was reported by the State Committee for National Security.

As it became known, the leadership of the Religious Board of Muslims of Kyrgyzstan placed the contributions, received from the pilgrims for the Hajj, in the country’s commercial banks for personal gain. Thus, private financial institutions were provided with loans in the amount of over $ 1.1 million (100 million KGS). For this, the leaders of the Religious Board of Muslims of Kyrgyzstan received monthly percentage bonus.

“After identifying these financial transactions, the leadership of the Religious Board of Muslims of Kyrgyzstan began to insistently offer the employees of the State Committee for National Security a bribe in the amount of $ 100,000 for concealing the revealed facts and terminating further investigation,” the press service of the State Committee notes.

On February 9, this fact was registered in the Unified Register and pre-trial proceedings were started under article 328 part 3 “Giving a bribe on an especially large scale” of the Criminal Code of the Kyrgyz Republic. On the same day, the chief accountant of the Religious Board of Muslims of Kyrgyzstan was detained and placed in a pre-trial detention center while giving a bribe to employees of the State Committee for National Security.

 

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