Lukashenka's Fugitive Friend Bakiyev Brought About $ 300 Million Out From Kyrgyzstan

The Prosecutor General's Office of Kyrgyzstan has begun checking.

The Prosecutor General's Office of Kyrgyzstan began checking the statements of businessman Yevgeny Gurevich, whom the local media calls "financial adviser" to the family of ex-president Kurmanbek Bakiyev, on the withdrawal of multimillion-dollar funds by the relatives of the former head of state from the country.

As the press service of the Prosecutor General's Office of Kyrgyzstan told Interfax on Friday, several departments of the main supervisory authority began to check Gurevich's statements, which he made to the media.

"Evgeny Gurevich's arguments are checked, information on withdrawal of funds from Kyrgyzstan, visits of prosecutors and other facts that were announced, is checked, too," – the source said.

Earlier, Gurevich said in an interview with the Kyrgyz office of Radio Svaboda that Bakiyev's family brought $ 200-300 million out of the country and that he had evidence.

Gurevich also said that he was ready to cooperate with the government of Kyrgyzstan. According to him, representatives of the Prosecutor General's Office of Kyrgyzstan made a two-day visit to prison in the US where he was serving a sentence in 2015, and had a conversation with him, but there were no further meetings.

After the April 2010 revolution, which resulted in the change of power in Kyrgyzstan, President Bakiyev, his relatives and closest associates fled the country. The property belonging to the president's family and his entourage was nationalized.

Bakiyev's son Maxim was sentenced in absentia to life imprisonment by Kyrgyzstan court for corruption and laundering of criminal money and was put on the international wanted list. According to the media, now Maxim Bakiyev lives in London.

Yevgeny Gurevich, who together with Maxim Bakiyev founded an investment bank, was sentenced in absentia for 25 years in prison for withdrawing money from the Kyrgyz Asia Universal Bank (AUB).

In recent years, Gurevich served time for fraud in prison in the state of Alabama, USA, and recently was released.