Previously, in cooperation with the Osh branch of the National Bank of the Kyrgyz Republic, administrative measures were taken against illegal exchange offices, resulting in fines totaling 17,500 soms. However, their activities continued.
In this regard, the GKNB initiated a criminal case under Article 218, Part 2 of the Criminal Code of the Kyrgyz Republic, concerning illegal entrepreneurial and banking activities with the extraction of income on a particularly large scale.
On October 26, as part of mass searches conducted at the identified exchange points, significant amounts were seized:
66,490,671 soms,
941,360 US dollars,
3,635,527,600 Uzbek sums,
3,531,200 Kazakh tenge,
66,729,142 Russian rubles,
170 Tajik somoni,
29,890 Turkish lira,
23,361 euros,
53,920.5 Chinese yuan.
All illegal exchange points have been closed and sealed.
Currently, investigative actions are ongoing, after which a legal assessment of the actions of all involved parties will be provided.
