According to the State Security Service, the chief specialist of the Transport Department of the Khorezm province, having gained trusted a man engaged in business activities, promised to hand over a 960-square-meter vacant land plot belonging to another individual in the city of Urgench through acquaintances in the cadastral offices, and demanded 135 thousand US dollars in return for issuing the relevant documents for the construction of a multi-storey residential building there, and received US$ 80 thousand upfront. At the time of his arrest, law enforcement agencies seized evidence.
Currently, a criminal case has been opened against the man person under Large scale fraud of the Criminal Code, with investigation underway.
