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09/24/2025, 14:45A number of officials involved in a large-scale corruption scheme at the Chaldovar-Avtodorozhny checkpoint in the Chui region have been detained in Kyrgyzstan.
According to the State Committee for National Security, employees of the tax service, border service, Ministry of Agriculture and Ministry of Transport were involved in the illegal activities. Together with so-called ‘pushers’, they organised a system for the illegal import of goods from EAEU countries, using fictitious documents with distorted data on the cost and volume of cargo.
According to the investigation, the intermediaries charged the owners of the cargoes between $1,500 and $2,000 per heavy load. Every day, up to 80,000 soms were illegally collected at the checkpoint and distributed among officials and military personnel.
It has been established that the scheme operated through the companies ‘TD Zhoro’ and ‘Radiant,’ which were registered to cover up the smuggling. The funds were transferred both in cash and via online wallets.
As part of the criminal case under the article ‘Corruption’ (Article 336 of the Criminal Code of the Kyrgyz Republic), citizens of Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan were detained, and the involvement of 24 government officials was established: 7 tax officials, 6 border guards, 7 phytosanitary inspectors and 4 weight and size control workers.
The head of the State Committee for National Security, Kamchybek Tashiev, said that the damage to the budget from the actions of corrupt officials is estimated at millions of soms. According to him, similar schemes may also be operating at other checkpoints in the Chui region — Ak-Zhol and Ak-Tilik.
Tashiev ordered the dismissal of all those responsible, the seizure of their property and the prosecution of managers who allowed corruption in their areas.
