By empty (1/9/2007 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Member of Kyrgyz parliament, one of leaders of For Reforms! Opposition Movement Temir Sariyev was detained at Manas Airport today, on January 9, while checking in to a Bishkek-Istanbul flight. As a REGNUM correspondent is told by sources at National Security Service and administration of Manas Airport, the MP had $100,000 with him that were not declared. The MP was taken from the flight, the money was seized, a protocol on it was signed, preliminary investigation materials were drawn up.The Central Asia-Caucasus Analyst is a biweekly publication of the Central Asia-Caucasus Institute & Silk Road Studies Program, a Joint Transatlantic Research and Policy Center affiliated with Johns Hopkins University's Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, Washington DC., and the Institute for Security and Development Policy, Stockholm. For 15 years, the Analyst brings cutting edge analysis of the region geared toward a practitioner audience.