During the operation, 116 currency exchange offices were discovered, of which 84 were operating without the necessary licenses.
Previously, the GKNB, in cooperation with the National Bank's office in Osh, conducted inspections and imposed administrative measures on violators. As a result, fines totaling 17,500 soms were imposed, but despite this, illegal activities continued.
Due to the violations, a criminal case was initiated under part 2 of Article 218 of the Criminal Code, concerning "illegal entrepreneurial and banking activities with the extraction of income on a particularly large scale."
On October 26, large-scale searches were conducted, during which significant amounts of money were seized:
- 66 million 490 thousand 671 soms;
- $941 thousand 360;
- 3 billion 635 million 527 thousand 600 Uzbek soms;
- 3 million 531 thousand 200 Kazakh tenge;
- 66 million 729 thousand 142 Russian rubles;
- 170 Tajik somoni;
- 29 thousand 890 Turkish lira;
- 23 thousand 361 euros;
- 53 thousand 920.5 Chinese yuan.
All identified exchange offices have been closed and sealed. Investigative activities are ongoing, and a legal assessment of the actions of the violators will be provided based on the results of the investigation.
