As a result of searches, significant amounts of cash were seized from the "currency exchangers"
The State Committee for National Security of the Kyrgyz Republic has shut down the activities of illegal exchange offices at the "Dostuk-automobile" checkpoint.
Security services reported that 116 exchange offices were identified at the checkpoint, 84 of which operated without the necessary licenses. Previously, their owners were fined 17,500 soms each, but this did not stop their activities.
In this regard, the GKNB of the KR initiated a criminal case under Article 218, Part 2 of the Criminal Code of the KR (illegal entrepreneurial and banking activities with the extraction of income on a particularly large scale).
On October 26, large-scale searches were conducted in these exchange offices, during which the following were seized:
- 66,490,671 soms,
- 941,360 US dollars,
- 3,635,527,600 Uzbek soms,
- 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 exchange offices were closed and sealed. Investigative actions are currently underway, after which a legal assessment will be provided.
