Omurbek Tekebayev

He then worked as a teacher in Akman Bazar-Korgonskyj, a village in Jalal-Abad Province, and then graduated in law from the Kyrgyz State National University in 1994.

[2] Tekebayev was an opposition figure to the government of President Askar Akayev, which had ruled Kyrgyzstan since its independence in the early 1990s, following the collapse of the Soviet Union.

In 2000 he formed an election bloc with Felix Kulov and came in a distant second to Akayev with 14% of the vote; however, opposition leaders widely alleged electoral fraud.

In the turmoil that followed, Akayev was forced to flee the country and an interim government headed by President Kurmanbek Bakiyev claimed power (see: Tulip Revolution).

[4] Many eyewitnesses pointed out that Ata Meken members of the Bazar-Korgon region and aggressive Uzbeks from the Rodina party burned down a house in the native village of Teyit of exiled President Kurmanbek Bakiyev.

[6] Tekebaev's meetings with the Uzbek leader Kadyrzhan Batyrov were also reported by other Kyrgyz politicians, and accusations against him figured in the parliamentary investigations of the Ata-Zhurt party.

Members of the Ata Meken party were accused of having, on Tekebaev’s orders, made a number of organized attempts to loot the property of the former authorities.

Arrested Bishkek jail inmates openly claimed that they were ordered to loot and burn the Bakiyevs' houses by Ata Meken party leaders.

[9] The parliamentary commission, following the results of its audit in September 2012, also presented a conclusion, which reported that the leader of the parliamentary faction "Ata Meken" Omurbek Tekebayev and his deputy Bolot Sher were indirectly involved in the looting on April 7–8, 2010, and deputies Turatbek Madylbekov, Raykan Tologonov and their sons were directly involved in them.

[10] The parliamentary commission confirmed the conclusions, but the case did not go to the point of prosecution, due to opposition from the coalition of authorities in parliament and litigation by Tekebaev himself.

[18] Tekebaev was accused by the infamous Russian oligarch Leonid Mayevsky of taking a bribe of 1 million US dollars for a positive solution to the issue of the Megacom mobile operator, but allegedly did not fulfill his obligations.

[29] Tekebaev was released from prison amid a political conflict between Almazbek Atambayev and Sooronbai Jeenbekov, and later acquitted during presidency of Sadyr Japarov.