Two mid-level managers at Amonatbonk, Tajikistan's largest state-owned bank, have been arrested and charged with taking part in illegal cross-border financial transactions.
An official at the State Agency for Financial Control and Anti-Corruption Efforts told RFE/RL that the managers at Amonatbonk's main headquarters in Dushanbe were detained on October 16 for allegedly trying to smuggle $50,000 plus a "large amount" of Tajik somonis into neighboring Kyrgyzstan in an attempt to trade it on the foreign exchange market there.
The anticorruption official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, did not disclose the identities of the arrested bank managers.
A source close to Amonatbonk told RFE/RL that investigators think the two men were transporting cash into Kyrgyzstan on a regular basis.
It was not immediately clear if other managers or employees at Amonatbonk were under investigation.
A spokesman for the state anticorruption agency confirmed that two employees of Amonatbonk had been arrested but refused to give further details.
The Tajik government uses Amonatbonk to disburse pensions and salaries to individuals employed by state institutions.
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