Judge detained in Panj

The Chairman of the Panj District Court in the Khatlon Region has been detained on charges of receiving a large bribe.

According to the weekly newspaper “Farazh,” on January 25, 2024, employees of the Agency for State Financial Control and Combating Corruption detained the chairman of the Panj District Court of the Khatlon Region in his office.

The chairman of the Panj District Court of the Khatlon Region, Abdurakhmonzoda Bakhtiyor Saidumron, is “suspected of receiving 122,000 somoni in several instances,” the report states.

Judge Abdurakhmonzoda Bakhtiyor Saidumron spent the night from January 25 to 26 in the detention center of the Agency for State Financial Control and Combating Corruption in the Khatlon Region, and on the morning of January 26, he was transferred to Dushanbe.

Criminal proceedings have been initiated against Abdurakhmonzoda Bakhtiyor by the employees of the Agency for Combating Corruption under part 3 of Article 319 (Receiving a bribe by a person holding a public office) and part 2 of Article 314 of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Tajikistan (Abuse of official powers by a person holding a public office).

At the time of writing this article, the press service of the Agency for State Financial Control and Combating Corruption of Tajikistan had not officially commented on this incident, and there is no information about this case on the agency’s website. The weekly newspaper “Farazh” does not provide a reaction from the suspect, his relatives, or his lawyer.

According to official data, Abdurakhmonzoda Bakhtiyor Saidumron served as a judge at the Firdausi District Court in Dushanbe until April 11, 2018. He was then appointed as the chairman of the Panj District Court in the Khatlon Region.