In March 2013, Maksim Bakiev, a son of former Kyrgyz President Kurmanbek Bakiev, has been sentenced in absentia to 25 years in prison. He was found guilty of making illegal land purchases and brokering a corrupt deal for an electric power company’s shares. It is suspected that he transferred about $35 million of a $300 million loan from Russia into his private bank accounts.
He was initially arrested in London in 2010 on charges of conspiracy to defraud and conspiracy to pervert the course of justice in a U.S. case.
In May 2013, the U.S. criminal securities fraud case against Maksim Bakiyev has been dismissed without giving an explanation.
Former Kyrgyz President’s Son Sentenced In Absentia
by RFE/RL’s Kyrgyz Service
http://www.rferl.org/content/kyrgyzstan-maksim-bakiev/24940401.html
In April 2010, after bloody riots in the capital overturned the government, Bakiyev reportedly fled to the southern city of Osh. The head of the new provisional government, Roza Otunbayeva, declared that Bakiyev had not resigned and was trying to rally support. On April 13, 2010, Bakiyev said he was willing to resign the presidency if his security was guaranteed. On April 15, 2010, at 19:00, Bakiyev left Kyrgyzstan for Kazakhstan, having signed a resignation letter. Otunbayeva stated that she would press ahead to bring Bakiyev to trial.
On April 20, the Belarusian president, Alexander Lukashenko told his parliament that “Bakiyev and his family, four people in all, have been in Minsk since Monday evening, as guests…Today they are here under the protection of our state, and personally of the president.”
On April 21, Kurmanbek Bakiyev held a press conference in Minsk and stated “I, Kurmanbek Bakiyev, am the legally elected president of Kyrgyzstan and recognised by the international community. I do not recognise my resignation. Nine months ago the people of Kyrgyzstan elected me their president and there is no power that can stop me. Only death can stop me,” and called Otunbayeva’s administration an “illegitimate gang”.
In February 2012 it has been reported that Bakiyev was granted Belarusian citizenship in 2010.
During his time as president, several Bakiyev family members had prominent positions in the government, with at least five close relatives working in the upper echelons of power. His brother Janysh Bakiyev was head of the presidential guard, brother Marat Bakiyev was Kyrgyzstan’s ambassador to Germany, and another brother Adyl Bakiyev was an adviser to Kyrgyzstan’s ambassador to China.
Since the overthrow, Maksim Bakiyev, the younger son of Kurmanbek Bakiyev, has been charged with embezzlement and abuse of power by the interim government. It is suspected that he transferred about $35 million of a $300 million loan from Russia into his private bank accounts. When the revolt took place, Bakiyev was headed to the US for a series of meetings in Washington. On June 14, 2010, Maksim was arrested in the UK when he landed at Farnborough Airport in Hampshire in a privately hired jet. The Kyrgyz government is demanding his extradition.
元大統領に禁錮２４年 キルギス政変流血で訴追 （共同）
２０１０年のキルギス政変で流血を招いた責任があるなどとして訴追されていたバキエフ元大統領に対し、首都ビシケクの軍事法廷は１２日、職権乱用罪で禁錮２４年の判決を言い渡した。大統領警護隊を率いた元大統領の弟は計画殺人罪などで終身刑。タス通信などが伝えた。
２人はベラルーシに亡命しており、共に欠席裁判だった。同国はこれまで身柄引き渡し要請に応じていない。罪状の詳細は明らかにされていない。弟は元大統領とたもとを分かち、野党入りしようとした元大統領府長官の殺害を命じた罪で起訴されていた。
１０年４月７日、強権姿勢を強めていたバキエフ氏の政権に抗議する野党勢力のデモ隊と警護隊が衝突。タス通信によると警護隊の発砲などで同日、９７人が死亡し、約５００人が負傷した。その後、同政権は崩壊した。