According to a report from the DXX information service, the division prosecutor of the Surkhandarya regional prosecutor's office, exploiting his official position, demanded 2000 US dollars in exchange for instructing the Denov District Department of Internal Affairs not to initiate a criminal case, despite the presence of evidence of a crime in the pre-investigation materials collected against a citizen in case file 1999, which was under the investigation of the Investigation Department of the said DIA.
On September 5 of the current year, he transferred 5 million soums of the demanded sum to a plastic card in his name.
He was caught red-handed by State Security Service officers while receiving 1300 US dollars of the demanded money during an operational event carried out in the city of Termiz.
A criminal case has been initiated against the prosecutor regarding this incident under Part 3, subsection "v" of Article 168 of the Criminal Code, and "detention" as a preventive measure has been applied.
In another incident, the senior assistant to a judge of the civil cases judicial panel of the Andijan Regional Court, demanded 500 US dollars from a woman, a resident of Andijan city born in 1992, in exchange for using her connections with high-ranking officials to secure a ruling from the Inter-District Civil Court of Andijan District in the woman's name, transferring a portion of the properties belonging to her ex-husband to her benefit.
The judge's senior assistant has so far received 200 US dollars of the demanded sum.
During an operational event conducted in Andijan city through the collaboration of the State Security Service and the Department for Combating Economic Crimes, she was caught red-handed while receiving 3 million 800 thousand soums, equivalent to the remaining 300 US dollars.
Currently, a criminal case has been initiated against the judge's senior assistant under Part 3, subsection "v" of Article 168 and Part 1 of Article 211-28 of the Criminal Code, and "detention" as a preventive measure has been applied.
A similar violation of the law was also recorded in the city of Jizzakh, where a lawyer from the local bar association, exploiting his official position and conspiring with a citizen born in 1981, a resident of Mirzachul district, demanded 6000 US dollars in exchange for using his connections within the Jizzakh regional court system to secure the early release of a convict serving a sentence in a residential colony in Guliston district, Sirdarya region, based on an acquittal.
During an operational event carried out in the city of Jizzakh by officers of the State Security Service and Prosecutor's Office in collaboration, they were caught red-handed while receiving the demanded sum of money.
Currently, a criminal case has been initiated against these individuals under Part 3, subsection "v" of Article 168-25 and Part 1 of Article 211-28 of the Criminal Code, and investigative actions are being carried out.
