22.09.2022
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Uzbekistan: activists demand not to return stolen assets to Gulnara Karimova

The activists called on the US agency to use all its powers to prevent the Swiss Federal Office of Justice from returning the stolen assets to Gulnara Karimova. They believe the daughter of former Uzbek dictator Islam Karimov illegally obtained them through a multi-million dollar bribe scheme with international telecommunications companies. Karimova was given over […]

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Uzbekistan: corrupt investigator of the prosecutor’s office sentenced to 13 sears

The high-profile case of taking a $50,000 bribe by an investigator from the Uchtepa Prosecutor’s Office ended with a court verdict of 13 years in prison. The defendant was found guilty by the Yashnabad District Criminal Court under paragraph “a” of part 3 of Article 210 (taking a bribe) of the Criminal Code. He is […]

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Uzbekistan: new law on civil service will save influential corrupt officials from prosecution

The norms prescribed in the new law on the state civil service will affect corruption of the middle and lower levels. Such a conclusion follows from the list of persons who are not covered by the scope of the introduced legal norms. “This circumstance immediately discredits the generally correct intention in regulating the relations of […]

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Uzbekistan: investigator detained while taking bribe

On August 3, at the time of receiving $5,000, an employee of the Investigative Department of the Department for Coordinating the Activities of the Department of Internal Affairs in Samarkand was detained. The Prosecutor General’s Office reports that the investigator promised the suspect mitigation of punishment in the criminal case. A criminal case was initiated […]

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Uzbekistan: 1,785 officials prosecuted since the beginning of the year

In 1429 criminal cases, 1785 officials were brought to justice in just six months of this year. The press service of the General Prosecutor’s Office clarifies the composition of the criminals: 13 officials are employees of republican, 195 employees of regional and 1,577 employees of district (city) departments of ministries, institutions and organizations. 1210 persons […]

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Uzbekistan: Prosecutor’s Assistant Detained While Taking Bribe

On July 10, the assistant prosecutor of the Kurgantepa district of the Andijan region was detained while receiving a bribe in the amount of $1,500. In a widespread message, the press service of the Prosecutor General’s Office specifies that the assistant was caught red-handed during an operational operation carried out by the Andijan Regional Prosecutor’s […]

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Uzbekistan: 128 corruption crimes were committed in the banking sector in the first quarter of this year

Akmal Burkhanov, director of the Anti-Corruption Agency, spoke about a critical threat to reforms from corruption in the banking sector at a meeting of the Anti-Corruption Council of Tashkent on June 14. During two years, 676 bank employees stole 354.2 billion sums ($32 million). According to Burkhanov, based on the decision of the National Anti-Corruption […]

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Uzbekistan: The head of Andijan began to testify against his accomplices

After the testimony during the interrogation of the former head of Andijan, the head of the Regional Department of Public Education, Azizbek Mirkomilov, was detained. The number of those arrested in the case of embezzlement from the budget of more than $5 million is approaching 40. The news of the arrest was confirmed by the […]

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Uzbekistan: Mayor of Andijan was detained for financial crimes

“The long epic about the dismissal of the hokim of Andijan Bakhromjon Khaydarov from his post has ended. He was detained during the preliminary investigation,” a source from Kun.uz online media informed. This information was confirmed by the press secretary of the Prosecutor General’s Office Hayot Shamsutdinov. The case of the corrupt official is dealt […]

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