Almaty. the 5th of March. KazTAG - USA increased the reward for information about the Thief in the law of Kamchybek Kolbayev, known as Kolygiz, up to $ 5 million, reported on the official website of the US State Department.
"The State Department of the United States announced an increase in remuneration to $ 5 million for information that will lead to the arrest and / or condemnation of Kamchybek Kolbaev, and / or for the information that will contribute to the destruction of the financial schemes of the Kolbaev criminal organization," the report says.
As reported, in 2000, Kolbaev was convicted of an attempt to kill his former criminal boss and killing two more people. For these crimes, Kolbaev was sentenced to 25 years, but, after six years, ran out of prison. In 2007, the US State Department called Kolbaeva "the leader of the most influential criminal group" in the country, and on April 23, 2008, Kolbaev was "crowned" as a thief in law in Moscow by Russian leaders of organized crime.
In June 2011, Obama administration recognized Kolbaev a large foreign drug dealer in accordance with the law on foreign drug dealers. In 2012, the US Department of Finance announced Kolbaeva comprehensive criminal syndicate "fraternal circle". In 2013, he was accused of several crimes in the Kyrgyz Republic, including extortion, abduction, arms trade, and drugs, but served only a three-year period for extortion. In 2017, the US Ministry of Finance accused Kolbaeva for acting on behalf of the thieves in law. The last time he was arrested in October 2020 in Bishkek, the Kyrgyz Republic, was performed for the creation of a criminal organization and participate in it.
"Remuneration is offered as part of the program of combating transnational organized crime of the State Department," the US State Department notes.
Earlier it was reported that one of the possible leaders of the transnational organized criminal group (OHG) "fraternal circle" of Kamchibek (Kamchi) Kolbaev was detained in Bishkek.
The "fraternal circle" is an organized criminal group, whose backbone, according to the US authorities, make up people from the countries of the former USSR. According to American government agencies, the criminal group industries drug smuggling and operates in Europe, as well as in the Middle East, in Africa and Latin America.
The US Department of Finance calls a "fraternal circle" a multinational grouping consisting of the leaders and high-ranking members of several Eurasian criminal groups based mainly in the countries of the former USSR. According to the American Ministry of Finance, "many members of the" fraternal circle "profess the overall ideology based on the traditions of" thieves in law ", which seeks to extend its form of criminal influence on the whole world."
On March 4, it became known that in the Kyrgyz business organized criminal group (OHG), the "fraternal circle" appear "Winners in Kazakhstan's prisons".