Businessman was not paid for goods and was beaten to disability

A resident of the city of Khujand complains that entrepreneur Komil Kholikov, a resident of the Chorkuh jamoat of the city of Isfara, received goods worth 980,000 somoni from him but has not paid yet.

Hasan Masobirov, a resident of Khujand, told Azda TV that he used to trade in car tires.

“In 2013, I brought a batch of tires from Germany and Poland. In April of that year, Komil Kholikov came to me and purchased tires worth 120,000 dollars, saying that he would bring the money later. But he never repaid the debt. I have approached him many times, but to no avail. Moreover, he ordered his men to beat me severely, after which I became disabled. They took my apartment and store. Now I am a first-group disabled person and forced to live in a rented apartment,” Masobirov says.

According to him, Komil Kholikov and his brother Abdukhaqim Kholikov have repeatedly harmed him, and due to their connections in the law enforcement agencies of the Sughd region, all his attempts to seek justice remain unanswered.

“In 2014, when I complained to the Ministry of Internal Affairs about Kholikov’s actions, I was taken to the 6th department (Department for Combating Organized Crime of the Ministry of Internal Affairs – ed.), where eight people, of whom I only remember the names of two, Daler and Mahmud, beat me to near death. They thought I was dead and took me to the cemetery. But then, when they realized I was alive, they let me go,” the victim recalls.

According to him, after such a brutal beating, he became disabled, with one arm and leg paralyzed, and he finds it difficult to even speak. Now Masobirov is a first-group disabled person.

“I have appealed more than 10 times to various high-ranking authorities: 4–5 times to the Executive Office of the President, several times to the parliament of the country, the General Prosecutor’s Office, and the police, I fought for my rights, but they only tell me: ‘We will consider it’ or send the case to other structures. And that’s it. There is still no result,” he says.

Masobirov also provided Azda TV with copies of letters and responses he sent to various government agencies, including the Executive Office of the President, the General Prosecutor’s Office, and the Transport Prosecutor’s Office, but all appeals were unsuccessful, as he claims that Komil Kholikov has too many connections in government structures.

One of the documents shows that the Transport Prosecutor’s Office of Tajikistan sent a letter on May 19, 2025, to the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs’ transport department, Lieutenant General of Police Solekhzoda I.R., requesting a thorough review of Masobirov’s complaint.

In the letter from the transport prosecutor’s office, the Kholikovs are directly mentioned as the guilty parties.

The Transport Prosecutor’s Office of Tajikistan has sent a request from citizen Masobirov K.A. regarding the illegal actions of citizens Kholikov A.M. and Kholikov K.M. concerning the non-return of the amount of 980,000 somoni for consideration and a legal decision to be made,” the letter states.

A similar letter was sent on August 15, 2025, by the Prosecutor’s Office of the Firdavsi District of Dushanbe to the Internal Affairs Department-2 of the Firdavsi District, demanding to “thoroughly check the request of Khasan Masobirov and inform about the results.”

However, Masobirov told Azda TV that he has not yet received any response from the Internal Affairs Department-2 of the Firdavsi District.

Thus, both the General Prosecutor’s Office and other bodies have sent similar letters to various divisions of the Ministry of Internal Affairs demanding to “consider the complaints of the citizen,” but in reality, the situation does not change.

Azda TV attempted to obtain a comment from the opposing side, but was unable to find contact information for the Kholikovs. Nevertheless, we reached out to the head of the company OJSC “Avicenna,” Abdurazzok Saidov. According to Masobirov, he is not only a relative of Komil Kholikov—his father-in-law—but also a close business partner. Currently, Komil Kholikov manages the company’s branch in Kazakhstan and is involved in the construction of residential buildings.

Abdurazzok Saidov refused to speak with Azda TV and stated that he has no information regarding the case of Masobirov and Kholikov, of whom he is both a partner and a father-in-law.

Azda TV is ready to publish comments from the opposing side if they respond to these accusations.

This is not the first case where law enforcement and judicial authorities in the country are unable to resolve the issues of affected citizens and restore justice. Due to nepotism and rampant corruption within state institutions and law enforcement agencies, victims often find themselves at fault and are forced to directly appeal to President Emomali Rahmon for assistance in resolving their problems.