The State Committee for National Security of Kyrgzystan (SCNS) has uncovered a case of illegal appropriation of land belonging to Soolikhin mosque in Jalal-Abad.
According to the SCNS press service, in 2016 the former imam of the mosque, identified as B.A.A., conspired with a specialist of the Spiritual Directorate of the Muslims of Kyrgyzstan (SDMK), also identified as B.A.A., and the former head of Yrys aiyl okmotu, I.K.A., to illegally transfer a 350-square-meter plot of land, previously used as the mosque’s parking area, into private ownership and registered it in the name of a specialist of the muftiyat.
As part of the criminal investigation, the SDMK specialist has been placed in a pre-trial detention facility. The former imam and the ex-head of the aiyl okmotu have been placed under house arrest.