Former Severnaya Customs Chief Charged with Fraud
Former Head of Severnaya Customs Faces Fraud Allegations
Former head of Severnaya customs, Nurbek Aibashev, is facing fraud allegations over an especially large scale, according to Zarema Sharipova, the affected party. Sharipova alleges that Aibashev took advantage of her husband’s many years of friendship to pledge her property to third parties in 2017. The former customs officer did not pay the debts, which puts Sharipova’s property in danger of being transferred to strangers.
According to Sharipova, while Aibashev worked in the civil service, he went into business and claimed that he urgently needed money to solve problems with the goods. Aibashev asked Sharipova to pledge her apartment. The people he owed money said that the deal should be formalized as a purchase and sale of real estate.
Then, Aibashev asked Sharipova to pledge her restaurant. The ex-head of Severnaya customs was imprisoned in 2018, and every month Sharipova had to ask him for money for interest payments. The people to whom Aibashev did not return the money filed a lawsuit to evict her. Sharipova wrote a statement to the police and wants seizure of the property, which the courts have refused to do.
Aibashev changed his name and escaped the country. An accomplice of Aibashev, a former employee of the State Committee for National Security named Cholpon Asanov, is also on the run.
The ex-head of Severnaya customs was detained in 2018 and charged under the article “Abuse of official position” of the Criminal Code of the Kyrgyz Republic. Two years later, he was placed under house arrest, then later fined. He fled the country before the sentence came into force.
