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Tuesday, 09 January 2007

ONE OF KYRGYZ OPPOSITION LEADERS DETAINED AT BISHKEK AIRPORT

Published in News Digest

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.
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. After that Temir Sariyev was released. Spokespersons for the National Security Service, Customs and Manas Airport decline any comments or unavailable for comments. The MP planned to have a news conference later today. For the last two weeks a black bar started in lives of opposition members of the parliament. Recently, photos were published on one of web-sites portraying a person resembling opposition MP Kabay Karabekov, who was in a sauna accompanied by a girl. Later, a letter was published in the web where another opposition politician Omurbek Tekebayev was allegedly asking money from ex-president Askar Akayev for holding a rally. Tekebayev refuted all rumors on such letter. Meanwhile, when the MP tried to have a meeting with electorate in South Kyrgyzstan, a group of women threw fruits at him and disrupted the meeting. (regnum.ru)
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