US welcomes detention of notorious crime boss Kamchybek Kolbayev

AKIPRESS.COM - The United States welcomes detention of notorious crime boss Kamchybek Kolbayev and hopes the government will hold him accountable for his crimes, the U.S. embassy in Bishkek said in a statement. The Embassy recalls that the U.S. Department of State's Transnational Organized Crime Rewards Program offered a reward of up to $1 million for information leading to the disruption of the financial mechanisms of the criminal network of Kamchybek Kolbayev.
"Kolbayev's criminal network is based in Central Asia, and is involved in drug trafficking, arms trafficking, human trafficking, extortion, and other crimes. The Kolbayev criminal network is part of the broader Brothers' Circle transnational criminal organization composed of leaders and members of several Eurasian criminal groups.
Kolbayev was designated by the U.S. Department of the Treasury Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) under Executive Order (E.O.) 13581 in February 2012 for acting for or on behalf of the Brothers' Circle," the statement said.