The company director is accused of embezzling 272 thousand somoni

The director of the company “Ahmad Sokhtmon” has been detained on charges of embezzling more than 272,000 somoni (about 24,900 dollars) of budget funds.

According to the press center of the Agency for State Financial Control and Combating Corruption of Tajikistan, Nazarov Khurshedjon Abdurakhmonovich, the director of the Limited Liability Company “Ahmad Sokhtmon,” under the pretext of repairing the “building of the education department of the I. Somoni district,” intentionally and through service forgery embezzled 272,043 somoni, causing significant damage to the state.

According to the anti-corruption agency, a criminal case has been initiated against Nazarov Khurshedjon under Article 245, Part 4, Clause “b,” and Article 340, Part 1 of the Criminal Code of Tajikistan. It is reported that the investigation has been completed and the case has been sent to court.

The current articles of the Criminal Code of Tajikistan provide for a large fine or imprisonment for a term of 10 to 15 years.

This is not the first case where an official has been detained on charges of embezzling budget funds. However, in Tajikistan, as practice shows, officials usually avoid criminal liability with the help of their high-ranking acquaintances or “covers,” leading to the termination of criminal cases against them, and they even return to their previous positions.

In contrast, activists and critics of the government’s policies are sent behind bars for many years on minor charges. Recently, the court of the city of Vahdat found well-known political prisoner Buzurgmehr Yorov guilty of fraud and embezzling 42,500 somoni (more than 4,000 dollars) and added another 10 years to his prison sentence.