Corruption charges around the Kumtor’s gold deposit was removed from the former President of Kyrgyzstan Askar Akayeva, on Monday “Interfax” his associate Becklolls Talgarbeckov.
“All accusations with him were removed, interrogations ended. Akayev returned to Moscow yesterday,” said Talgarbeckov.
“During the investigation, it was established that Akayev does not have shares in the Centerra, that he did not receive profits from the kumtor. Now Akayev can fly to Kyrgyzstan on any day,” he said.
December 14 Akayev arrived in Bishkek for interrogation in the State Committee of National Security (GKNB) Kyrgyzstan.
Akayev, who fled from the country in 2005 after the change of power in the country, has already arrived in Bishkek on August 2. After interrogation in the GKNB of the Republic in the case of the Kumtor’s gold deposit, he was released. After a week, Akayev returned to Moscow.
Earlier, the GKNB of Kyrgyzstan reported that Akayev, along with other formerly high-ranking officials, was brought to criminal responsibility for corruption at the conclusion of the General Agreement on the Kumtor project in 1992, making changes to it in 1994, as well as in the restructuring of the General Agreement with the Company Cameco in 2003.
According to the Prosecutor General’s Office of Kyrgyzstan, in the period from 1992 to 2019, individual officials and management of JSC “Kyrgyzaltyn”, “creating an unlawful and sustainable connection” with representatives of the Canadian company Cameco, Centerra Gold Inc., and CJSC “Kumtor Operating Company “And Coumtor Gold Company CJSC,” in order to illegally obtaining material and other goods, were deliberately unfavorable for Kyrgyzstan for the development of the Kumtor gold deposit. “
in the case there are several former high-ranking officials and politicians, including two former Prime Ministers of Kyrgyzstan Temir Sariev and Joomart Ozorbaev.