Forensic expert commission, attracted by the State Committee for National Security to investigate all the details of the preparation and modernization of the Bishkek Heating and Power Plant, reviewed more than 400 project documentation albums. Sources informed 24.kg news agency.

According to preliminary data, the commission found that the quantities of work sheets and estimate documentation were developed without taking into account the cost of material resources and equipment.

When comparing the price offer by TBEA company and the set of adapted project documentation, the forensic expert committee doubted the completeness of the submitted materials.

In particular, the documents do not take into account the system of sulfur disposal and removal of engineering networks of the chemical workshop from the construction zone.

To complete the assessment of the cost of upgrading the Bishkek HPP, the forensic expert committee recommends the development of executive design and estimate documentation for the removal of engineering networks of the chemical workshop from the construction zone.

Under the terms of the contractual agreement, TBEA company was obliged to prepare design estimate documentation in accordance with the domestic legislation of the Kyrgyz Republic. Moreover, upon completion of construction, it had to hand it over to the customer.

Examination found design drawings that were not completely adapted to the legislation of the Kyrgyz Republic. The volume of these drawings was about 40 percent of the total amount. TBEA built two new power units on the territory of the Bishkek Heating and Power Plant not according to an adapted project, but according to Chinese standards.

In total, four criminal cases were opened on the breakdown and modernization of the Bishkek HPP and seven former top managers of the energy industry were arrested. Two former prime ministers Sapar Isakov, Zhantoro Satybaldiev and a deputy of parliament Osmonbek Artykbaev are also under arrest.

All of them were charged with corruption.

The first trial on the breakdown at the capital’s HPP has already begun in Bishkek. The defendants in the Pervomaisky District Court are the former head of the National Energy Holding Aibek Kaliev and the former general director of Electric Stations OJSC Salaidin Avazov.