Short Age of Kolbaev’s Organized Crime Group in Kyrgyzstan

Thu Oct 05 2023
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BISHKEK: The so-called criminal authority Kamchy Asanbek (Kamchybek Kolbaev) was liquidated during armed resistance to the GKNB officers on Wednesday in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan.

This news quickly spread on social media networks and did not leave many indifferent. Toward midday, social media networks were full of posts about the special operation in Bishkek.

People were speculating whether Kamchy Kolbaev was killed, injured or alive.   Toward evening, the State Committee for National Security (SCNS) put an end to the doubts of people through official release on the liquidation of the country’s main crime lord, the so-called “thief in law,” who had been leading an organized crime group in Kyrgyzstan for many years.

Over the years, society has already gotten used to the fact that crime has an impact on many aspects of people’s lives, and entrepreneurs with the fact that one “beautiful day” and then they may lose their business.

However, the current authorities represented by President Sadyr Zhaparov and the head of the GKNB Kamchybek Tashiev categorically did not put up with this state of affairs in the country, as the previous leaders did. Moreover, they decided to give a tough fight to criminals.

Stern warning to criminals in Kyrgyzstan

“No organized crime groups will operate in Kyrgyzstan,” GKNB Chairman Kamchybek Tashiyev told a Cabinet meeting in July this year.

He noted that all members of criminal groups will be brought to justice.

“Organized criminal groups will be completely destroyed. Now, my words are probably heard not only by ordinary citizens, but also by members of organized crime groups, bandits. I will warn you once again. The President has set a task before us to eradicate organized crime groups in Kyrgyzstan. OCG leaders, if you cannot live peacefully in Kyrgyzstan, leave the country. If not, the OCG leader will be punished, he will not be left free. I can say this with all responsibility,” Tashiyev warned.

He noted that the authorities will do everything possible to ensure that entrepreneurs and investors can freely conduct their activities in Kyrgyzstan.

“The fight against organized crime groups will continue. We will eliminate all groups. There will be no such groups in Kyrgyzstan, and no one will put pressure on business,” said the head of the GKNB.

Well, we must admit that the authorities have kept their promise. One of the main crime authorities has been liquidated. And apparently it won’t stop there. The same fate awaits all those who have anything to do with the OCG.

Because, as Tashiyev noted, the national security agencies are constantly working to combat organized crime and take measures to eradicate the influence of criminals on various spheres of life in the republic.

As part of this work, a number of criminal cases are being investigated against active members of organized criminal groups and their leaders for the illegal seizure of property of entrepreneurs on a particularly large scale.

Well, it is hoped that if the National Security bodies work at this pace, in the coming years the organized crime group will be completely destroyed and Kyrgyz people will finally be able to breathe a full breath in a country where there is no crime and the rule of law.

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