The same sitting cleared two ministers nominated by the president: Almaz Imangaziev for labour, social security and migration, a deputy foreign minister since November 2022 who earlier ran the ministry's consular service, and Almaz Aiylchiev for justice, who headed the legal support department of the presidential and cabinet administration. 24.kg published no vote counts and did not name whom the two replace. The parliament's committee on judicial and legal affairs had cleared Bekturganov's candidacy on Tuesday.
The case that reaches its verdict on Thursday began the day after the committee's chair fell empty.
On Tuesday Bekturganov set his priorities in one sentence, as open.kg reported: “We will focus precisely on citizens' complaints, and corruption matters will stay under constant control.” The same day, still in the acting post, he said 36 criminal cases had been opened on businessmen's complaints of unlawful actions by officers of the State Committee for National Security, with charges brought against 24 officers and the Military Prosecutor's Office investigating; 386 complaints are under review. The complainants' allegation, in the office's own summary, is unlawful action by the officers; the office has not published the articles of the Criminal Code under which the 24 are charged, and no outlet the desk read on Tuesday or Wednesday named them.
The case that reaches its verdict on Thursday began the day after the committee's chair fell empty. Tashiev resigned as vice-premier and chairman of the State Committee for National Security on 10 February by presidential decree, a day after a letter signed by public and political figures demanded early presidential elections and the early termination of the head of state's powers. Detentions began on 11 February. Eight people were charged with the violent seizure of power under article 326 of the 2021 Criminal Code: Tashiev; the former speaker Nurlanbek Turgunbek uulu; the former prosecutor general Kurmankul Zulushev; Bekbolot Talgarbekov; the former ambassador to Uzbekistan Emilbek Uzakbaev; the former deputy Kurmanbek Dyikanbaev; the former vice-premier Aaly Karashev; and the former deputy interior minister Kursan Asanov. The accused denied guilt.
On 2 July the Pervomaisky district court of Bishkek, judge Aziret Mederov presiding, convicted all eight under article 326, converted 4 years of imprisonment into 3 years of probation supervision with confiscation, and acquitted them of abuse of office. The prosecution had asked for 9 years. Both sides appealed. At the city court the prosecution again asks 9 years with confiscation for all eight; as of Monday, Tashiev had not yet spoken at the debates, and a defence lawyer expected the verdict on Thursday. The penalty range that article 326 carries is not on any record the desk could open: the legal databases that serve the code render its index and not its special part.
Bekturganov came to the top of the office in June 2026 from the first deputy's post, which he had held since June 2024; 24.kg dates his career from 1998. The appointment gives the prosecution that will argue on Thursday a confirmed head, and gives the 24 charged officers a prosecutor general whose sentence on priorities, the day before his confirmation, was about citizens' complaints.