The United Arab Emirates extradited to the law enforcement agencies of Kyrgyzstan the leader of the largest organized crime group in the republic, thief in law Kamchibek Kolbaev. The press service of the State National Security Committee of Kyrgyzstan reported this on Saturday, RIA Novosti reports .

At the moment, Kolbaev is in the pre-trial detention center of the State Committee for National Security in Bishkek, where he is being interrogated.

Kolbaev, also known as Kolya-Kyrgyz, is the most famous crime boss in Kyrgyzstan. It is reported that he was “crowned” and received the title of thief in Moscow in 2008. In 2000, he was sentenced to 25 years in prison for killing several people, but after six years he was transferred to a settlement colony and escaped. Until recently, he was hiding in the UAE with members of his organized crime group. In 2011, he was included in the US State Department's list of the largest foreign drug lords. Kolbaev was considered a member of the close circle of the second president of Kyrgyzstan, Kurmanbek Bakiev.

The thief in law was put on the wanted list in early 2011. This was done as part of an anti-crime campaign announced by the Kyrgyz authorities. At first, Kolbaev was wanted in an old case of attempted murder (we are talking about an attempt on the life of crime boss Ryspek Akmatbaev). Authorities later leveled other charges against him. clarifies As Interfax , among them are robbery, kidnapping, organizing a criminal community, using violence against a government official and a number of other crimes.

The largest crime boss in Kyrgyzstan transported from the UAE