Officers of the Tashkent branch of the State Security Service, together with the Department for Combating Economic Crimes under the General Prosecutor's Office of Uzbekistan and the Main Department of Internal Affairs of the capital, stopped a number of attempts to illegally sell land plots, the press service of the State Security Service reported.

In one case, a previously convicted resident of Tashkent, 63, demanded 500,000 dollars for registration, through acquaintances in the authorities of 2 hectares of irrigated land in Yukori-Chirchik district of Tashkent province, previously allocated to another person to build a greenhouse, as well as obtaining a permit to build there production shop. When receiving 50 thousand dollars as an advance, he was detained.

In another case, in Bostanlyk district of the same province, a citizen, 32, asked for $350,000 for registration of 35 hectares of land through familiar officials without putting it up for auction. The land belongs to the farm of another citizen and was allocated for 49 years for gardening. The suspect was arrested while receiving $40,000.

It is reported that another resident of the capital, 30, was detained while receiving 10,000 dollars out of the requested 680,000 dollars for registering 3 hectares of land in Bostanlyk district, already owned by one company.

The SSS department for Jizzakh province, together with the territorial branch of department under the Prosecutor General's Office, detained the head of a farm specializing in cotton and grain growing in the Sharaf-Rashidov district. He intended to sell 5 hectares of irrigated land of the farm for 200 million soums and promised to draw up documents in the name of the buyer through acquaintances in the district agriculture department.

In another case, three previously convicted residents of Andijan and Altinkul district, having entered into an agreement, demanded 4.5 hectares of land in the small industrial zone of Altinkul district for 36 thousand dollars for registration in the name of the buyer through familiar officials. One of them was detained while receiving 10.7 thousand dollars, his accomplices - in the course of the continuation of the operation.

According to the described facts, criminal cases have been initiated, and an investigation is underway.