Police detain former director of Vecherniy Bishkek Murat Bozhokoev

17:19, 22 ноября 2018, Bishkek - 24-kg.com news agency

Former director of Vecherniy Bishkek publishing house, Murat Bozhokoev, was detained. Law enforcement agencies informed 24-kg.com news agency.

Murat Bozhokoev, together with the owner of Vecherniy Bishkek Alexander Ryabushkin, has been placed in a pretrial detention center.

In the near future, the court will choose a measure of restraint for the both suspects.

Earlier, the Prosecutor General’s Office, having considered the statement by the ex-owner of the publishing house Alexander Kim about a raider seizure in 2014 of the holding company Vecherny Bishkek by Alexander Ryabushkin, initiated a criminal case under articles: abuse of official position and fraud of the Criminal Code of the Kyrgyz Republic.