Officials detained for bribery in Surkhandarya and Namangan

Several officials, including an operative officer, a department head, and a legal adviser, have been detained for accepting bribes in Surkhandarya and Namangan regions. The State Security Service reported this.

During a joint operation conducted by the State Security Service’s Surkhandarya regional department and the regional prosecutor’s office, a senior operative officer of the Customs Administration’s Anti-Smuggling Department was caught red-handed while illegally receiving 400 US dollars from a citizen.

It was established that the officer abused his official position by promising a resident of Termez district to illegally transfer 20,000 US dollars to the Republic of Tajikistan through the Sariosiyo border customs post, without completing declaration documents, with the help of his associates.

A criminal case has been initiated against him under Article 168, Part 3, Clause “v” (fraud) and Article 25 in conjunction with Article 211, Part 1 (bribery) of the Criminal Code.

In another operation carried out jointly by the State Security Service’s Namangan regional department and officers of the regional Department of Internal Affairs, the head of a district cadastral department in the region was detained while receiving 3 million soums out of the 5 million soums he had demanded.

The official had demanded the bribe in exchange for processing documentation for a canopy structure built in front of a local resident’s grocery store.

A criminal case has been opened against him under Article 210, Part 2, Clause “v” (accepting a bribe) of the Criminal Code.

Separately, a legal adviser of the Kosonsoy district branch of the Namangan division of Energosavdo, a subsidiary of Hududiy Elektr Tarmoqlari JSC, was detained while receiving 2,000 US dollars from a local resident.

According to reports, during inspection raids, authorities had identified that the resident had illegally connected his home to the electricity network, resulting in a fine of 28.6 million soums. The legal adviser promised to eliminate the fine without entering it into the electronic system in exchange for the bribe.

A criminal case has been initiated against him under Article 168, Part 3, Clause “v” (fraud) of the Criminal Code.