A list of government bodies and entities to which the conflict of interest law, which will take effect on December 6, will apply has been formed, announced the spokesman to the Anti-Corruption Agency Sherzod Saparov at a briefing Tuesday.
National interdepartmental commission was formed In pursuance of the June 5presidential decree to be led by the Prime Minister Abdulla Aripov to coordinate the implementation of the Conflict of Interest Law.
The decree instructed to form a specific list of state bodies and organizations by July 1, 2024 to which the law will apply.
According to the minutes of the commission meeting, the list included 27 state bodies and organizations at the national level, 71 national executive bodies, 10 state target funds, the Council of Ministers of Karakalpakstan, governor and mayor offices of Tashkent city, provinces, districts and cities, as well as 49 business entities and unitary enterprises in which the state's share in the authorized capital is 50% or more.
The list does not include the State Security Service, the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the Ministry of Defense, the National Guard, and the State Security Service of the President.
In the event of reorganization of state bodies and organizations, changes in their names, or the creation of new ones in accordance with the law, the Anti-Corruption Agency shall make the appropriate changes and additions to the list.
Anti-Corruption, the Ministry of Justice, and the Prosecutor General's Office have drafted a standard departmental plan for implementing the law.
Working groups of these three departments checked compliance with the established restrictions for civil servants using questionnaires and tables. According to the law, employees of ministries and departments, state unitary enterprises and institutions, as well as organizations with a state share of more than 50% and governor and mayor offices are prohibited from doing business.
During checks for 10 months of this year, the Agency found that 1,488 executives were owners of 1,653 business entities. The Agency made 33 submissions to government agencies and organizations on terminating the activities of employees as founders, on preventing entrepreneurial activity, and on preventing similar cases in the future. To date, about 80% of these workers have complied with the requirements.
The Agency also remotely studied compliance with public procurement legislation through the etender.uzex.uz system, identifying 127 cases of conflict of interest for a total of 175.4 billion soums and 22 cases for 23.9 billion soums, when victory in public procurement was achieved using methods that limit competition.
The agency achieved the cancellation of the results of these public purchases.
In addition, the check by the Accounts Chamber found that 1,400 contracts for public procurement for 195.5 billion soums with the participation of 155 state customers of local governor and mayor offices were entered into in violation of the law and with a conflict of interest. Administrative violation sheets were drawn up against 125 officials who committed offenses, and the collected documents were referred to court.
Earlier, the agency called on people to report cases of corruption by calling 1253 or via the www.eanticor.uz platform.
