Uzbekistan: “second-tier” bribe-takers detained again

Another wave of detentions of corrupt officials again showed that secondary officials were suspected of committing crimes. Earlier, ACCA posted about the bribe received by the head of the department of the khokimiyat of the Chilanzar district of Tashkent. Now the Prosecutor General’s Office announced the detention of his accomplice, the deputy head of the capital construction department of the capital’s administration. Now the Prosecutor General’s Office announced the detention of his accomplice, the deputy head of the capital construction department of the capital’s administration.

The bribe-takers received a $ 50,000 deposit for assisting the entrepreneur for registering the right of ownership on a land area of one hectare for $ 1.4 million.

The civil servant got into criminal intelligence analysis on June 22. He was taken first, but at first, it was reported about the arrest of the head of the district administration department. Bypassing the chief of the aforementioned, a deal could hardly have been realized” the ACCA expert notes – “Neither the hokim of Tashkent nor the hokim of the Chilanzar district of the capital appear in the corruption chain. They are directly responsible for the allocation of land. The amount of a bribe over a million dollars does not correspond to the rank of detained bribe-takers. The reason for the unfair distribution of the profits is quite probable, and people with a higher rank have turned them in.”

In 2018, the former head of the Samarkand region, Turob Juraev, arrested for issuing permits for illegal development of the historical center of Samarkand, admitted receiving bribes from tenant builder. During the detention, almost a million US dollars were found in Juraev’s office locker and he had no option than to give a confession.

Signs of higher-level corruption can be seen in the project of the Ministry of Health of Uzbekistan in the presidential decree “On additional measures to strengthen the material and technical base of AKFA University.” The document, if approved by the president, will meet the business interests of the Tashkent hokim Jahongir Artykhodzhaev. He actually owns the Akfa Medline company, to which the state will transfer 30 hectares and allocate $ 57 million from the country’s budget for the construction of a private medical university.