An assistant prosecutor in the Oqqorgon district of Tashkent province was caught red-handed accepting a bribe. He was detained in a sting operation run by State Security Service officers in cooperation with the Prosecutor General's Office's Personal Security Department. Authorities say the official used his position to demand a total of $12,000 from a citizen in exchange for resolving a car-sale dispute and helping him secure a preferential bank loan of 600 million soums.
During the operation, he was caught in the act taking $4,700 of the requested amount, with the marked bills seized as evidence. A pre-investigation inquiry subsequently found that he had already taken $1,300 from the same citizen at an earlier date.
Authorities are now moving to open a criminal case against him over the matter.
The arrest follows two other recent corruption cases: the head of a limited liability company in Ohangaron was detained after demanding $83,500 in exchange for settling a 1.2-billion-soum debt, and two people were arrested in Tashkent for collecting $31,200 from foreign nationals in exchange for visas.
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