A few days ago, information surfaced on the social networks that the prosecutor of Kurgantepa district of Andijan province, Sardor Rajabboev, allegedly attracted employees of the district communal services department to work from spring to autumn in his house yard.
The stories also included photographs of the staff of the communal services department in his house. Most likely, those workers were getting paid from the budget for their work.
According to the MP Rasul Kusherbayev, citizens complained about the actions of the district prosecutor. The Andijan province prosecutor's office commented that three workers were voluntarily working in the house of district prosecutor, and that no one forced them to work.
To this, the deputy reasonably pointed out that if the improvement workers worked for the prosecutor voluntarily, and the prosecutor did not use his official position to put pressure on them, then why did they complain about the prosecutor to a higher authority?
It is also questionable whether the testimony of witnesses and others during the investigation and inquiry into the case, and their explanatory letters that “the workers worked voluntarily” were not obtained under duress.
According to the General Prosecutor's Office, an official investigation has been ordered into the fact that a “voluntary” community works was carried out in the house of the prosecutor.
The Article 7 of the Labor Code prohibits forced labor, that is, compulsion to perform work with the threat of any punishment (including as a means of maintaining labor discipline).
According to Article 1 of the Prosecutor's Office Law, the Prosecutor General and prosecutors subordinate to him exercise control over the exact and uniform implementation of laws in Uzbekistan.
