As a result of the upcoming reforms, the State Committee for National Security of the Kyrgyz Republic (GKNB) will return to its traditional functions as a special service. In an interview with the news agency "Kabar," Sadyr Japarov stated that the agency will no longer deal with issues of economic crime and minor offenses.
The president emphasized: "The GKNB will focus solely on its core tasks: intelligence and counterintelligence, protecting constitutional order, combating terrorism, extremism, organized crime, and drug trafficking. Interference in the economy will be excluded."
Furthermore, Sadyr Japarov expressed dissatisfaction with the involvement of special services in the fight against intimate services, noting that he instructed the previous head of the agency: "Friend, transfer this area to the Ministry of Internal Affairs, it is their responsibility. Do not lower the level of the GKNB."
According to the president, the main goal of the reform is to make the GKNB a more closed and prestigious agency. "No one should know what the GKNB is doing and who its employees are. After the reforms, it will be a real special service, similar to the old KGB," he added.
