The residence of the former president of Kyrgyzstan Almazbek Atambayev is confiscated in favor of the state, the representative of the State Property Management Fund (Fugi) said on Tuesday, May 31. “A house on a land plot of 2.70 hectares in the village of Koy -Tash Alamedinsky district of the Chui region, owned by Almazbek Atambayev, is confiscated and accepted into state ownership,” the statement said.
According to a representative of Fugue, on the basis of the above complex it is proposed to form a social “stationary institution for elderly citizens.”
Atambaeva Zamir Zhooshev, however, said that Fugi employees who penetrated the territory of the facility did not provide any documents confirming the confiscation of property. “The deputy chairman of Fugi Kanat Ryskulov set the unfounded ultimatum for three days to free the house of Almazbek Atambayev … No documents were presented, not to mention the court decision on the eviction from the house of Atambayev family living in it,” said ZhoShev.
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.