BISHKEK -- Two senior investigators at the Bishkek City Prosecutor's Office have been charged with abuse of office, RFE/RL's Kyrgyz Service reports.
Anatoly Khegai and Altynbek Namazaliev have been accused of "illegally unfreezing bank accounts belonging to ousted Kyrgyz President Kumanbek Bakiev's relatives."
Officials at the Prosecutor-General's Office told RFE/RL that an investigation was launched on October 12. Namazaliev is currently under house arrest, and Khegai is being held in a pretrial detention center in Bishkek.
All bank accounts belonging to Bakiev and his relatives were frozen by the interim government shortly after Bakiev was ousted on April 7 amid clashes between antigovernment protesters and security forces in Bishkek.
Bakiev currently lives in Belarus, where he fled to after leaving Kyrgyzstan.
Anatoly Khegai and Altynbek Namazaliev have been accused of "illegally unfreezing bank accounts belonging to ousted Kyrgyz President Kumanbek Bakiev's relatives."
Officials at the Prosecutor-General's Office told RFE/RL that an investigation was launched on October 12. Namazaliev is currently under house arrest, and Khegai is being held in a pretrial detention center in Bishkek.
All bank accounts belonging to Bakiev and his relatives were frozen by the interim government shortly after Bakiev was ousted on April 7 amid clashes between antigovernment protesters and security forces in Bishkek.
Bakiev currently lives in Belarus, where he fled to after leaving Kyrgyzstan.