Control over the civil servants' expenditures matching with their incomes will be implemented in Uzbekistan, the President Shavkat Mirziyoyev announced at a meeting with scientists, scholars and heads of research institutes.
At the meeting, Shavkat Mirziyoyev recalled the plan to create an anti-corruption body, accountable to the president and parliament. According to the president, the new body will check civil servants for corruption.
“This body will not a tribune for making phoney statements, but for real investigation for corruption factors, how ministers and others are behaving, what kind of house they are living in, how they justify their buying mansions, luxury cars. Now each senior official will take questions,” he said.
The President emphasized that such an environment would be created in which civil servants, including senior officials, would be accountable for income inconsistency with expenses and be accountable to the law.
Shavkat Mirziyoyev pointed out that three days ago a chief of one of the customs posts was arrested, and that 400 thousand dollars were found in his house.
“A chief of a small post, kept 400 thousand dollars. It is in one day. We are trying so hard that the world community recognizes our reforms ... And we’ve got this, he said.
In October last year, a draft presidential decree was presented, which proposed starting January 1, 2020 to begin the phased implementation of a system for declaring property, income and expenses of civil servants. The document has not yet been adopted.
