Officials of Jizakh region embezzled and spent 7 billion 16 million sums. The information was confirmed by the Prosecutor General’s Office, responding to the publication on the social network.
The press service reported that the administration of Arnasai district of the region achieved the allocation of a soft loan under the pretext of sowing cotton on 8000 hectares, of which 1549 were not financed and the necessary agrotechnical work was not done.
The department did not give the name of the creditor, did not name the positions and surnames of the suspected officials. It is possible to “launder” such a large amount of money only in collusion with the bank’s CEO and directly with the head of the district administration. On the fact of the crime, a criminal case was initiated on especially large embezzlement.
As the ACCA expert notes, “high-profile cases of corruption are now being investigated in the region, but this did not serve as a warning for officials and their accomplices with their passion for easy money. The temptation is very great to make easy money for a short time in the executive’s chair.”
Earlier, ACCA wrote about a criminal case for violations in public procurement in Jizakh region. Former deputy hokim Akram Rakhmonkulov, together with officials of the tender commission and entrepreneurs, were charged with embezzlement of $ 86,000, abuse of power and official forgery.
During the investigation, over 1,121,000 dollars in sums’ equivalent were arrested at enterprises related to Rakhmonkulov, as well as 172 stores in Jizakh, 43 cars, 14 apartments and 37 other real estate objects.
In 2020, Prosecutor General Nigmatilla Yuldashev announced that 22 middle-level government officials of the country had been prosecuted for corruption in the previous two years. In June 2021, his deputy, Shavkatjon Rakhimov, said that since 2019, hokims have allegedly given out more than 120 thousand hectares of land allegedly “aimlessly”, although a corruption component can be traced in their decisions. As a result, 588 officials have already become involved in criminal cases.
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