In 2021, Tengiz Bolturuk, being a temporary external manager of Kumtor Gold Company CJSC, took out a mortgage for house for $725,000 in Oakville town in Canada. Kaktus.media reported, citing law enforcement officials.
It is specified that the journalists have at their disposal a copy of the agreement on the extension of the mortgage loan for 25 years with a fixed interest rate on the names of Tengiz Bolturuk and his wife Ilmira Alpysbaeva dated October 17, 2022 with a balance of $688,689 out of $725,000.
The agreement has the address of the house — 2322 Woodridge Way, Oakville, ON L6H 6S3. A Google search of the address shows what is supposedly Bolturuk’s family home in Canada. Website has interior photos as well.
It is noted that at the time of the loan extension agreement, Tengiz Bolturuk was in the pre-trial detention center of the State Committee for National Security or in hospital under escorts on charges of a corruption scheme in Kumtor Gold Company CJSC with a damage of almost one billion soms.
Tengiz Bolturuk has Canadian citizenship.
He was the manager of Kumtor Gold Company CJSC from May 2021 to February 2022, but since February last year he was appointed manager of Heritage of Great Nomads National Holding.
It was reported that the criminal case against former employees of Kumtor Gold Company CJSC, including the external manager of the company Tengiz Bolturuk, was sent to court.
On September 5, the Military Prosecutor’s Office announced suspension of the investigation against Tengiz Bolturuk due to his illness. It is also known that the former external manager of Kumtor was in custody for only two months out of seven and a half. He paid damages of 10 million soms out of 1 billion soms. The rest of the amount was allegedly divided among the other defendants in the case.
Tengiz Bolturuk and Ryspek Toktogulov were dismissed from all the positions they held. It was reported that the Prosecutor General’s Office began a detailed check. It resulted in three criminal cases with preliminary damage to the state of 1 billion soms. As a result, the former external manager of Kumtor was detained. Tengiz Bolturuk himself does not admit his guilt. He stated that all the accusations were false. Tengiz Bolturuk and other defendants in the criminal case on corruption paid 844,512,858 soms.
Source: 24.kg News Agency