Kyrgyz laws made for corrupt officials - security chief
BISHKEK. June 20 (Interfax) - Corrupt officials who have vast financial assets have built the Kyrgyz laws to suit themselves, head of the country's State National Security Committee Shamil Atakhanov told a press conference on Tuesday.
"Officials are arranging for corruption contracts and use the entire administrative mechanism. This is obvious but we cannot hold them to account. The fight against corruption requires great skill and human resource, both in techniques and in the laws," the security chief said.
"Corrupt officials having vast financial funds have built the Kyrgyz laws to suit themselves," Atakhanov said.
This is exactly why "not a single person has been prosecuted in Kyrgyzstan under the anti-corruption law in the seven years of its existence," he said. "Although the republic has joined the United Nations Convention against Corruption, the dispositions of our law have not changed," the security chief said.
The parliament has proposed a package of bills modifying the Penal Code, he said.
I will propose to hold an open vote among deputies on the proposed changes to step up the fight against corruption, he said.
Today it is more difficult to identify crimes of corruption because market mechanisms are at work, international financial reporting standards are being introduced, and this requires training of our own specialists, he said.
