The management of the directorate for the operation of tram lines under the administration of the Samarkand city khokimiyat appropriated $ 118 thousand. The regional branch of the Department for Combating Economic Crimes under the Prosecutor General’s Office reported on the initiation of a criminal case on the facts of theft and money-laundering of such a large sum.
Officials have spent over $ 7,000 on business travel. Nearly $ 25,000 was unjustifiably added to employee salaries, of which $ 11,000 was never transferred to them. When paying for contracts and other expenses of citizens not working at the enterprise, the management of the enterprise spent $ 13,000.
The height of the variety of spending was the purchase of a three-room apartment for $ 23,000. The persons suspected of embezzlement and waste of money thus tried to legalize their proceeds from criminal activity.
The regional department initiated a criminal case against officials of a state enterprise under two articles of the Criminal Code. According to Article 163, in case of compensation for material damage caused, the punishment in the form of restriction of freedom and imprisonment is not applied.
The legalization of proceeds from criminal activity under Article 243 is punishable by imprisonment from five to ten years.
During work on the construction, reconstruction, and improvement of several infrastructure facilities in preparation for the summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) in 2022, the General Prosecutor’s Office also revealed theft, waste, and misuse of funds.
In 2018, the Fund for Improvement and Welfare was established, to which the Fund for Reconstruction and Development of Uzbekistan allocated a loan of $ 25 million. When carrying out construction, repair work, and landscaping in Samarkand, $ 70,000 was embezzled and wasted at the expense of the fund. The names of the perpetrators were not disclosed.
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