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{{Infobox person
| name = Kamchy Asanbekovich Kolbayev
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| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1974|08|03}}<ref name=treasure>{{cite web | url=http://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/sanctions/OFAC-Enforcement/Pages/20120223.aspx | title=Resource Center: Anti-Terrorism Designations; Transnational Criminal Organizations: Specially Designated Nationals List Update | publisher=US Department of the Treasury | date=2012-02-23 | accessdate=June 18, 2012}}</ref>
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| other_names = Kamchibek Kolbaev, Kamchi Kolbayev, Kamchibek Kolbayev, Kamchi Bishkekskiy, Kolya Bishkekskiy, Kolya-Kyrgz<ref name=treasure/>
| known_for = Organized crime
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'''Kamchy Asanbekovich Kolbayev''' is an alleged [[crime boss]] in [[Kyrgyzstan]]. Crimes he has been linked to include murder, drug trafficking, and extortion.<ref name=james>{{cite news | url=http://www.jamestown.org/single/?no_cache=1&tx_ttnews%5Btt_news%5D=37573 | title=Kyrgyz Government Attempts to Crack Down on Organized Crime | work=Eurasia Daily Monitor Volume: 8 Issue: 40 | date=February 28, 2011 | agency=The Jamestown Foundation | accessdate=June 18, 2012 | author=Marat, Erica}}</ref> The US State Department in 2007 said he was "considered to be the leader of the most influential criminal group in the country",<ref name=statedept>{{cite book | title=Country Reports on Human Rights Practices for 2007 | publisher=Government Printing Office | author=US Department of State | year=2008 | url= https://books.google.com/books?id=O5rs8UkMj64C&lpg=PA2248&ots=6A566bUm1v&dq=Kamchy%20Kolbayev&pg=PA2248#v=onepage&q&f=false|pages=2248}}</ref> and in 2012 US President Obama named Kolbayev "a significant foreign narcotics trafficker", operating as part of the so-called [[Brothers' Circle]] criminal society.<ref>{{cite news | url=http://www.treasury.gov/press-center/press-releases/Pages/tg1430.aspx | title=Treasury Imposes Sanctions On Key Members Of The Yakuza And Brothers’ Circle Criminal Organizations | publisher=US Department of the Treasury | date=2012-02-23 | accessdate=June 27, 2012}}</ref> He was subsequently added to the US Treasury's list of [[Specially Designated Nationals]], preventing him from doing business in the US.<ref name=treasure/> The United States is seeking to dismantle ties to banking and finance that Kolbayev or his associates have constructed.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.state.gov/r/pa/prs/ps/2014/05/226877.htm | title=Reward for Information on Kamchybek Kolbayev's Criminal Network | publisher=US State Department | work=Office of the Spokesman | date=May 29, 2014 | accessdate=30 July 2014}}</ref>

Living in Dubai and Moscow as of 2012,<ref name=treasure/> he may have fled Kyrgyzstan after the [[2010 Kyrgyzstani revolution|2010 revolution]].{{citation needed|date=June 2012}} The new government, more hostile to organized crime, detained Kolbayev for a short period of time later releasing him without charge.<ref name=james/> This was not the first time Kyrgyz authorities have decided against branding Kolbayev a criminal; in 2007 a police investigation of his activities was ordered to cease by the then Minister of the Interior.<ref name=statedept/> Kolbayev may have spent time in a Kyrgyz prison earlier in his life, however.<ref name=localnews/>

After the death of [[Tynychbek Akmatbayev|Rysbek Akmatbayev]] in 2006, Kamchy was allegedly crowned a [[thief in law]] in a ceremony attended by [[Vyacheslav Ivankov]].<ref>{{cite journal |publisher = The Jamestown Foundation | title=POLICE FACED WITH NEW KYRGYZ "THIEF IN LAW" AFTER A TWO-YEAR BREAK | author=Marat, Eric | journal=Eurasia Daily Monitor |date=May 2008 | volume=5 | issue=98}}</ref>

In 2011, Kolbayev was detained in Abu Dhabi.<ref name=localnews>{{cite news | url=http://eng.24.kg/investigation/2011/07/21/19342.html | title=Kyrgyz mafia boss detained in Abu Dhabi, the United Arab Emirates | work=24 Press Club | date=2011-07-21 | agency=24.kg | accessdate=June 18, 2012}}</ref> Kyrgyzstan requested his [[extradition]], but this was not granted; he was released in September, 2011.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://ciss.blog.olemiss.edu/2011/10/17/directors-weekly-brief-17-october-2011/ | title=Director’s Weekly Brief, 17 October 2011 | publisher=The University of Mississippi | work=Center for Intelligence and Security Studies | date=October 17, 2011 | accessdate=June 27, 2012}}</ref>

Kolbayev was mentioned in the batch of US [[diplomatic cable]]s leaked by [[Wikileaks]] in 2010.<ref>{{cite web | title = KYRGYZ INTERIOR MINISTER APPOINTED SNB CHAIRMAN, COMMENTS ON CURRENT CRIME SITUATION |url=http://leaks.hohesc.us/?view=06BISHKEK1428 | work=GUARDIANGATE | accessdate=June 27, 2012}}</ref>

==References==
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==External links==
*[http://www.asiacentral.es/uploads/kirguistan_novdec11.pdf "Kyrgzstan: November-December 2011", ''Central Asia Observatory'', Jan. 2012]

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[[Category:Drug traffickers]]
[[Category:Kyrgyz Revolution of 2010]]
[[Category:Kyrgyzstani mobsters]]
[[Category:Thieves in law]]
[[Category:Kyrgyzstani exiles]]
[[Category:Transnational organized crime]]
[[Category:Kyrgyzstani people]]
[[Category:Organized crime]]
[[Category:1974 births]]
[[Category:Living people]]

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