These individuals were found guilty of negligence and received a fine of 75,000 soms. After the ruling of the Osh City Court, the former judges were released from custody.
On November 24, 2024, the Deputy Chairman of the Cabinet of Ministers and Chairman of the State National Security Committee Kamchybek Tashiev announced the detention of three judges of the Jalal-Abad Regional Court.
On November 22, 2024, the Council of Judges considered the request of the Attorney General for consent to prosecute the judges of the Jalal-Abad Regional Court and the former judge.
The Council of Judges granted permission for the prosecution of the aforementioned judges and the former judge for crimes under part 4 of Article 337 (abuse of office) and part 1 of Article 352 (rendering an unjust judicial act) of the Criminal Code.
The State National Security Committee reported that on November 23, 2024, the judges were detained and placed in the SNB pre-trial detention center for a period of one month.
According to the case materials posted in the State Register of Judicial Acts, in 2022, these judges, while considering an appeal in the case of citizen S., accused of illegal drug trafficking, allegedly received a bribe to mitigate the punishment.
The case began on August 4, 2020, when an operative officer of the Ministry of Internal Affairs reported the illegal possession of drugs by citizen "S" in Jalal-Abad. As a result, a pre-trial investigation was initiated under part 1 of Article 268 of the Criminal Code (illegal manufacture of drugs without the intent to sell).
According to the investigation, in August 2020, a search was conducted during which substances resembling drugs were found in a black bag belonging to S. A forensic chemical examination conducted on August 9, 2020, confirmed the presence of 1.81 kg of cannabis and 24.1 grams of opium.
Citizen S. fled and was declared wanted. He was detained in May 2021.
The case was initially classified under Article 267 (illegal manufacture of drugs with the intent to sell), and then reclassified to part 3 of Article 267 (illegal manufacture of drugs in especially large quantities).
On March 28, 2022, the Jalal-Abad City Court found S. guilty under part 3 of Article 267 and sentenced him to 10 years of imprisonment, which, considering partial consolidation with the previous sentence, amounted to 11 years.
The lawyer filed an appeal.
The case materials were submitted to the judicial panel of the Jalal-Abad Regional Court on May 13, 2022. The father of the convicted individual approached the lawyer asking for help to free his son, offering 850,000 soms.
The investigation established that the lawyer offered a bribe to the judge for mitigating the punishment, stating the possibility of allocating 500,000 soms. The judge agreed.
A few days later, the lawyer met with the judge and handed him 750,000 soms, keeping 100,000 for himself. The judge shared the received money with other judges of the panel.
On August 19, 2022, the judicial panel changed the verdict of the city court, requalifying S.'s actions to part 2 of Article 268 and sentencing him to 7 years of imprisonment. On the same day, the request for a deferral of the sentence until the convicted individual's son reached 14 years of age was granted.
Citizen S. was released from custody in the courtroom and soon fled.
On December 14, 2022, the Supreme Court annulled the decision of the regional court and upheld the verdict of the city court from March 28, 2022, which has not yet been executed as the convicted individual is on the run.
The investigation believes that the judges, despite their powers and oath, seriously violated the Constitution (Articles 94, 95), the Criminal Procedure Code, and the Code of Judicial Conduct, ignoring aggravating circumstances.
On May 20, 2025, the Osh City Court issued a verdict regarding the former judges of the Jalal-Abad Regional Court.
On charges under Article 352 (rendering an unjust verdict), the court acquitted them due to lack of corpus delicti.
Nevertheless, the court found them guilty of negligence and imposed a fine of 100,000 soms, which was reduced to 75,000 considering the time spent in custody.
The court changed the measure of restraint for the former judges, and they were released in the courtroom.
On September 8, 2025, the judicial panel of the Osh Regional Court confirmed the verdict.
The prosecutor filed a cassation appeal against the decisions of the courts, demanding their annulment and a new trial.
The defense also filed a cassation appeal, demanding the annulment of the decisions and full acquittal of their clients.
On December 3, 2025, the Supreme Court left the decisions of both instances unchanged.
