Uzbekistan: The number of employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, who were found guilty of corruption, almost doubled
89 employees of the Internal Affairs bodies were convicted of corruption in 2021. The Ministry of Internal Affairs disseminated information in the local media that, compared to 2020, the number of crimes has almost doubled and amounted to 119 episodes.
Of the almost five thousand complaints received by the Anti-Corruption Agency in 2021, 7% reflected dissatisfaction with the actions and decisions of police officers. Law enforcement officers were charged under articles related to abuse of office, forgery, fraud, giving and receiving bribes.
Earlier, ACCA wrote that over the same period, the number of identified bribe takers increased by 57% in the Uzbek bureaucracy. Crime indicators became more significant when, compared to 2020, the volume of civil, economic and criminal cases increased significantly in 2021.
“More and more facts are becoming known about crimes in the judicial community. A judge of the Regional Interdistrict Court for Civil Cases of Tashkent city is suspected of taking a bribe,” the press service of the Supreme Judicial Council of Uzbekistan reports.
On February 7, at the meeting of the Council, the bringing of a certain T.O. to criminal liability under Part 2 of Article 210 (“Taking a bribe”) of the country’s Criminal Code was discussed. The suspect’s first and last names were not released. He faces five to ten years in prison. The investigation itself is called secret.
