The detention of two employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs at the time of receiving a bribe was reported by the Agency for State Financial Control and Combating Corruption of Tajikistan.
“The head of the analysis and control department of the Investigation Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Tajikistan, Zebunisso Ismatshozoda, and the investigator of this Department, Kumrigul Halimzoda, acting in collusion, demanded $ 1.2 thousand from citizen “A” for deleting information about his conviction from the database of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Tajikistan,” the press center of the Anti-Corruption Department informs.
A criminal case was initiated against the detainees under Article 247 Part 2 (Fraud) of the Criminal Code of Tajikistan.
It’s worth recalling that in most cases, criminal cases are initiated against corrupt officials in Tajikistan not under the article “Taking a bribe”, but “Fraud”. Thus, corrupt officials can avoid the penalty of imprisonment. However, in order to re-qualify the article in the case, the detained corrupt officials give a bribe to investigators.
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