The Samarkand city criminal court has sentenced the former prosecutor of the Kagan district of the Bukhara province, Bakhodir Gulomov.
According to the case materials, Gulomov colluded with Najmiddin Numonov and dangerous recidivist Zafar Odilov in early January of this year "for the purpose of fraudulently obtaining a large sum of money from other persons."
At that time, the Bukhara Province Prosecutor's Office's Department for the Investigation of Serious Crimes was conducting a criminal case against officials of the oil extraction plant in Kagan (Kogon Yog-Ekstraktsiya Zavodi). They gained the trust of one of the plant's owners (who was wanted) and promised for 100 thousand dollars not to bring charges against him and not to make a decision on criminal liability through their acquaintances in the provinceal prosecutor's office, the court decision says.
After this, on January 15, defendant Bakhodir Gulomov reportedly received $100,000 in front of the Turon Hotel in Bukhara through his criminal accomplice N. Numonov. It is indicated that he again asked for a bribe of $100,000 so that four other persons associated with the company would not be brought to justice and "fraudulently received $44,000."
Reportedly, Z. Odilov took $10,000 of the total sum, and N. Numonov kept the remaining $34,000 to hand over to Bakhodir Gulomov in the future.
The company owner M. Ismadzhanov, who acted as a victim in the case, filed a complaint on February 12 to the chairman of the State Security Service Abdusalom Azizov. On February 13, during an operational event, the prosecutor of the Kagan district was detained while receiving $56,000 through Numonov near the Bukhara City Central Hospital. In Numonov's GM Cobalt car, law enforcement officers found 34 thousand of the 100 thousand dollars that were requested in order not to implicate four officials associated with the plant.
Z. Odilov, in turn, asked the victim first for 700 thousand dollars, and then for 300 thousand dollars to terminate the criminal case, but did not have time to receive the money, since law enforcement officers detained the suspects on February 12.
At the court hearing, the former prosecutor initially denied the charges.
According to him, on January 8-10, he was vacationing in the Chinabad resort in Tashkent together with the heads of other sectors. During those days, Numonov approached the prosecutor of Kagan S. Zhuraev and asked for advice on the criminal case of his friend. Numonov was asked to invite his friend to the sanatorium - the owner of the oil extraction plant of Kagan M. Ismadzhanov. The latter said that a man named Avaz had taken the products from the plant, but he denied it and filed a complaint, after which a criminal case was opened.
The prosecutor told him that he needed to hire a lawyer and not to be afraid if there was no guilt. The accused claims that during a trip to a cafe for dinner with Numonov, they were stopped by SGB officers. He said that he did not have any money on him, 56 thousand dollars in a black bag were found in Numonov's car and 34 thousand dollars were found on Numonov himself. According to him, he did not ask for money and did not know about its presence.
Later, the former prosecutor confessed to committing the crime and stated that he did this on the instructions of the first first deputy prosecutor of the Bukhara province B. Kamolov (Bobur Kamolov, on February 16 there were reports of his dismissal), to whom he allegedly gave the 100 thousand dollars received from Numonov, and also conveyed Kamolov's words to Numonov and the victim Ismadzhanov.
He voiced regret for his actions, apologized to the head of state and asked the court to mitigate his sentence.
According to Numonov, the former prosecutor of the Kagan district stated that in order to resolve the problem with the criminal case, it was necessary to meet with the first deputy prosecutor of the Bukhara province, Kamolov, whom he called B.K., and connected Ismadzhanov with him.
Numonov stated that in order to resolve the problem with four people associated with the company who they wanted to involve in the case, Bakhodir Gulomov asked for another 100 thousand dollars to transfer this money to the first deputy prosecutor of the province, who "personally supervised the case."
