Uzbek 'Hurriyat' newspaper
October 16

Text of report released by the Prosecutor-General's Office of the Republic of Uzbekistan and published in the newspaper Hurriyat on 16 October

As a result of measures carried out by Uzbekistan's prosecutor's office and law-enforcement agencies and aimed at rooting out bribery and abuse of power by officials, people who have been caught red-handed are being punished accordingly.

A chief expert at the department for religion and public organizations in the Fergana Region's administration, Otabek Shodiyev, was caught red-handed while taking 300 dollars and 50,000 soms about 60 dollars from M. Oripov for appointing him the head of group of people going to make pilgrimage to Mecca. By a court decision Shodiyev was sentenced to four years imprisonment.

The head of an oil enterprise in Surkhandarya Region, Rustam Begaliyev, was caught red-handed while taking 1,500 dollars from a chief operator of an oil enterprise in Jarqorghon District, Yu. Farmonov, and was sentenced to 13 years imprisonment.

A chief inspector in the Chirchik town administration in Tashkent Region, Zokirjon Doniyorov, was caught red-handed while taking 100 dollars and 220,000 soms from a businessman and was punished accordingly.

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