Ex-President of Kyrgyzstan Almazbek Atambayev is accused of abuse of the official situation in the case of riots in June 2010, his lawyer Sergey Slesarev said Interfax.
“According to the June events of 2010, Almazbek Atambayev was charged with abuse of official position,” Slesarev said.
According to the lawyer, Atambayev refused to receive a notification, so he received a representative of the former president. “Almazbek Atambayev refused to participate in all investigative actions related to receiving a notification of suspicion and signing of documents. He is accused of preventing June events, but did nothing,” he said.
The investigation in the June events in the south of Kyrgyzstan was resumed in 2021 on behalf of the current president of the Republic of Sadyr Zhaparov.
In June 2010, in the Osh and Jalal-Abad regions in the south of Kyrgyzstan there were clashes between the Kyrgyz and Uzbek sides, during which, according to official figures, 442 people were killed and about 2 thousand were injured of varying severity. Atambayev, who served as president of Kyrgyzstan from 2011 to 2017, was deprived of presidential immunity in June 2019, he was charged with corruption. Later he was also charged with organizing riots in the center of Bishkek. On June 23, 2020, the Pervomaisky District Court of Bishkek sentenced Atambayev to 11 years and two months in prison with the confiscation of property in the case of illegal release in 2013 of the criminal authority of Aziz Batukaev. The subsequent appeals of the lawyers of the ex-president were rejected.