Bishkek, July 16, 2026. /Kabar/. From January to July of this year, Kumtor Gold Company CJSC transferred 19 billion soms to the state in the form of taxes and mandatory payments. Bolotbek Idirisov, Chairman of Kumtor's Board of Directors told Birinchi Radio.
According to him, the total income from the company's production activities during this period amounted to 733 million US dollars.
"Of this, 419 million USD was net income. This year, we transferred 300 million USD as dividends to our shareholder Kyrgyzaltyn OJSC. And if we take a longer period, during the transition of the Kumtor mine to state management, to be more precise, from the beginning of 2022 to July 2026, we transferred 1 billion 233 million USD to the state in the form of taxes and mandatory payments. The total income from the company's production activities was almost 5 billion USD. Our net income amounted to 2.2 billion USD.
During this period, the dividend paid to Kyrgyzaltyn OJSC amounted to 741 million USD," Idirisov said. He noted that, for comparison, the amount of dividends over the almost 30 years from the start of the Kumtor mine to the transition to state management was 101 million USD.