A staff member of the financial market regulation and supervision service at the Ministry of Economy and Commerce has been detained for extortion. This was reported by the press center of the State Committee for National Security (SCNS).
According to the agency, the employee of the State Financial Monitoring Service, Sh.E.Sh., demanded money from A.u.N.
It was found that A.u.N rents a part of a car showroom. In order to promote his business on social media, he organized a car giveaway. In April of this year, an employee of the State Financial Monitoring Service, Sh.E.Sh., visited the car showroom and began to pressurize the businessman, claiming that his activities were illegal, and threatened to conduct an inspection with the possibility of initiating a criminal case. He demanded $2,000 for a favorable resolution of the issue.
The employee of the State Financial Monitoring Service, Sh.E.Sh., was arrested on April 26 in his office while receiving a bribe of 53,000 som. He forced the applicant to transfer the amount to him through an ATM.
Investigative and operational measures are ongoing to identify other corrupt practices possibly committed by the said official. The detained individual has been placed in the Temporary Detention Center of the SCNS in the Kyrgyz Republic.
