DUSHANBE, March 11, 2014, Asia-Plus – One of defense lawyers of Tajik tycoon Zayd Saidov, Fakhriddin Zokirov, who was arrested by officers from the Agency for State Financial Control and Combating Corruption on March 7, is suspected of obtaining a large loan through false pretenses, an officer from the anticorruption agency told Asia-Plus today morning.
According to him, Fakhriddin Zokirov and his partner in crime obtained a US$1 million loan from one of Tajik banks several years ago through drawing up false documents.
“To obtain the loan they pledged documents for nonexistent company,” said the source. “To-date, they have repaid only the half of the amount they received from a bank.”
“The lawyer and his partner in crime are charged with large-scale fraud (Article 247 of Tajikistan’s Penal Code),” the source noted, adding that they got a warrant for arrest of Zokirov and his partner crime at the end of last week.
