Associates report former Kyrgyz President Atambayev's release from penitentiary
BISHKEK. Feb 14 (Interfax) - Former Kyrgyz President Almazbek Atambayev has been released from a penitentiary, Social Democrats Party Chairman Temirlan Sultanbekov said.
"The sentence was cancelled in the case of Batukayev's release, and former Kyrgyz President Almazbek Atambayev was released from custody," Sultanbekov said.
Atambayev's associates also published the Pervomaisky District Court's permission for his treatment outside Kyrgyzstan.
In the past two years, Atambayev was fully acquitted in the Kalys-Ordo school case, the case into issuing Kyrgyz passports to Turkish citizens and the case into attempt to grab power, he said.
"A commission established by the authorities proved that Atambayev had no relation to the cargo of a plane that crashed in Dacha-Su. The sentence pronounced in the Batukayev case was annulled today," Sultanbekov said.
Atambayev needs two vital surgeries and will also need rehabilitation afterwards, he said.
Atambayev, who was Kyrgyz president from 2011 through 2017, was stripped of immunity in June 2019. A number of criminal cases were opened against him, including on charges of unrest in the Koi-Tash village on August 7-8, 2019, corruption and money laundering, and illegal issuance of passports to Turkish citizens.
On June 23, 2020, the Pervomaisky District Court in Bishkek sentenced Atambayev to 11 years and two months in prison and ordered confiscation of his assets on charges of the illegal release from custody of crime boss Aziz Batukayev in 2013.
On June 16, 2022, Atambayev was found not guilty of the abuse of office and corruption as far as the criminal cases into construction of a school in Bishkek's Kalys-Ordo neighborhood and into the illegal issuance of passports to Turkish citizens were concerned.
On June 28, 2022, the Prevomaisky District Court in Bishkek acquitted Atambayev of organizing mass unrest in October 2020 due the lack of formal elements of crime.
In 2021, an investigation into the events in southern Kyrgyzstan in June 2010 was resumed on the orders from the Kyrgyz president. Five former members of the interim government, including Atambayev, who then was deputy prime minister, were charged with abuse of office.
Kyrgyz-Uzbek clashes, in which, according to official information, 442 people were killed and about 2,000 sustained injuries of various degrees, occurred in the Osh and Jalal-Abad regions in southern Kyrgyzstan on June 10-15, 2010.
