11:26, 10 октября 2023, 24.kg
Relatives of organized crime group members detained for extortion
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.
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