Cyn mayor of Bishkek Isa Omurkulov Azamat was sentenced to seven years imprisonment for committing a traffic accident, which killed three people. The corresponding decision made Tokmok City Court. This RIA Novosti press-secretary of the Kyrgyz Supreme Court Baktybek Rysaliyev. He said that the convict was appointed a probationary period of two years.
Accident involving 29-year-old Azamat Omurkulova (in the media, he also appears under the name Isaev) occurred in August 2011. Returning late at night from the shore of Lake Issyk-Kul, he said, while driving a Toyota Land Cruiser, exceeded the speed and drove into oncoming traffic, where the head collided with the Audi 80. As a result, the driver and two passengers were killed Audi in place. Passengers SUV, including the son of the mayor himself, were wounded.
The prosecution of the case Azamat presented in September 2011, after he was discharged from the hospital. November 24 municipal court judge Tokmok stopped the proceedings, as the relatives of the victims refused to claim the son of the mayor. November 28 the head of Bishkek Isa Omurkulov said that his son will be punished, while stressing that he (Mayor) in the judicial process did not interfere.
Later, the lawyer Omurkulova Jr. filed an appeal against the judge's decision to close the case. The son of the mayor, said to have decided it has no moral right to be exempted from punishment for crime.
The case considered a new panel of judges who appointed Azamat Omurkulova probation. As the agency K-News, the mayor's son was convicted under Article 282 of the Criminal Code of the KR Substandard repair of vehicles and issue them to the operation of the technical failures that resulted in the death of two or more persons.
Azamat's father, Isa Omurkulov took over as mayor of Bishkek after the coup in 2010, as a result of which was ousted Kyrgyz president Kurmanbek Bakiyev. Before the rebellion, he was one of the representatives of the opposition antibakievskoy.