Moscow ? Kyrgyzstan’s legislators are examining the assets owned by ousted President Askar Akayev and his family, and are unlikely to accept his resignation until later this week at the earliest, the country’s interim leader said Sunday.

Business leaders in the Central Asian country have accused Akayev’s family of grabbing control over profitable enterprises and rigging deals to line their pockets.

Akayev fled to Russia after opposition protesters stormed the presidential administration on March 24, sparking widespread looting in the Kyrgyz capital and catapulting the opposition to power.

Akayev, who ruled the former Soviet republic for its 14 years of independence, agreed to resign after meeting with a parliamentary delegation in Moscow, but lawmakers in Bishkek have yet to accept his resignation.

Acting President Kurmanbek Bakiyev told Russian state-run television that lawmakers were discussing the status of the property of Akayev and his family instead of considering Akayev’s one-page resignation which he wrote in Moscow last week.

“I think that (lawmakers) will not succeed Monday” in accepting the resignation, Bakiyev told Rossiya television.

He said a parliamentary commission had been set up to examine all the assets owned by Akayev and his family.

On Friday, parliament unanimously agreed to strip Akayev of special privileges that would have given him wide influence in Kyrgyzstan in recognition of his role as first president elected after the country gained independence during the 1991 Soviet collapse.

Akayev would retain immunity from prosecution — guaranteed by the constitution — but his family would not.