Criminal Procedure Code of the Kyrgyz Republic - Legislationline

Article 159. Institution of Prosecution of Personal-and-Public Charge
(1) Personal-and-Public prosecution shall be instituted only upon a victim’s report. Any
investigation and court proceedings shall be enforced according to the general procedure.
(2) Any prosecutor shall be authorized on his own initiative to institute personal-and-public
prosecution only in the following cases:
1) if an action damages the interests of the public and the state;
2) if an action damages the interests of a person who is helpless or dependent or because of
some other reasons may not individually realize belonging to him rights.
(3) A copy of the investigator’s resolution on institution of prosecution shall be filed with a
prosecutor within 24 hours.
(As edited by the Law of the KR dated 28 June 2001 #62)
Article 160. Direction of prosecution after its initiation
After the resolution on institution of prosecution has been rendered:
(1) The investigator shall start investigation or transfer the case to a prosecutor to be further sent
to the appropriate jurisdiction;
(2) A prosecutor shall send a case to an investigator to carry out the investigation.
SECTION 21. GENERAL INVESTIGATION CONDITIONS
Article 161. Investigation Agencies
Investigation of criminal cases shall be enforced in accordance with the determined by this Code
procedure by investigators of agencies of procuracy, agencies of the Ministry of Internal Affairs,
National Security agencies, the agency of Kyrgyz Republic on drug control of criminalprocedural
system of Ministry of Justice of Kyrgyz Republic, financial police and tax police
agencies.
(As edited by the Laws of KR dated 11 June 2003, #98, 28 March 2004 #52)
Article 162. Obligatoriness of investigation
(1) Investigation shall be obligatory for all criminal cases with the exception for cases initiated
on private charge.
(2) Investigation shall be obligatory for all criminal cases when a crime was committed by a
juvenile or a person who due to being disabled physically or mentally can not realize his right
to defense.
Article 163. Jurisdiction
(1) Criminal cases about crimes against life and health (Articles 97 – 109, 111, part one of
Article 112, Articles 113-122 of the Criminal Code of the Kyrgyz Republic), about crimes
against freedom, honor and dignity of a person (Articles 123 – 125, part two of Article 126 of
the Criminal Code of the Kyrgyz Republic), about crimes against inviolability of sex and