The crime stars of Kyrgyzstan: Kolya Kyrgyz and his friends - Ilyas Amengazeiv and Kamchibek Chiev.
A scandal is breaking out in Kyrgyzstan surrounding the alleged connections of the criminal authority Kamchibek Kulbayev (Kolya Kyrgyz) with the former head of the Governmental Committee for National Security Kamchibek Tashiev and the former special service officer Ilyas Amengzeiv.
Kolbaev is considered one of the most influential thieves in law in Central Asia. He was crowned in Moscow by Yaponchik and Dad Hasan. In 2011, the US Treasury included him on the sanctions list, and in 2021, Washington announced a $5 million reward for information about him.
Kolya Kyrgyz have been credited with controlling the drug trade, extortion, arms smuggling and money laundering. According to the investigation, his group included more than 600 people, and its assets were estimated at one billion dollars: hundreds of real estate properties, more than 700 apartments and dozens of luxury cars.
The main thing is the alleged influence of Kolbaev on the government structures. The authors of the investigation claim that for years he promoted his people to the Ministry of the Interior, the Attorney General's Office, the State Committee for National Security and the presidential entourage.
One of them is called Ilyas Amengaziev, a former employee of the State Committee for National Security and the son-in-law of Bukunbai Kazakov, who previously headed the committee's anti-corruption service.
Amengaziev was fired after a scandal involving drunken swimming in the children's pool of an elite residential complex in Bishkek. Later, his name came up in the story of a $65,000 Lexus LX 570 stolen in Kazakhstan. It turned out that the car was registered by Alina Amengzeev, and among the intended buyers was an employee of the State Committee for National Security named Ilyas Amengzeev, but with a different patronymic. The rightful owner Saken Akhmatov was never able to return the car.
The former security officer's attempt to enter parliament also failed. The Central Election Commission refused to register him because of a 2018 photo in which Amengaziev was captured near Kolya Kyrgyz. He confirmed the authenticity of the photo himself.
Another key figure is Kamchibek Chiev, former head of the State Committee for National Security.