DUSHANBE, April 21, 2014, Asia-Plus – By ruling handed down by the Tursunzoda city court on April 21 Tursunzoda’s market Sakhovat has been taken away from the Islamic Revival Party (IRP) leader Muhiddin Kabiri and a plot of land in which the market is located has been given back to the Committee for Youth, Sports and Tourism Affairs under the Government of Tajikistan.
The court also ruled that 836,000 somoni must be reimbursed to RIP leader Muhiddin Kabiri.
Meanwhile, Kabiri family’s defense lawyer, Buzurgmehr Yorov, says that this amount is nothing, “because my clients bought the market several years ago for 200,000 U.S. dollars.”
We will recall that according to official documents, the market is owned by Mastoura Rahmatulloyeva, the wife of IRP leader Muhiddin Kabiri.
The anticorruption agency claims that the previous owner of the market, Ms. Lutfiya Nematova, had constructed the market in the place of school stadium illegally and it asked the Tursunzoda city court to demolish the market as illegal.
Ms. Mastoura Rahmatulloyeva and Ms. Lutfiya Nematova are co-defendants.
Mr. Kabiri said on April 10 that he is ready to finance construction of a new school stadium if the Tursunzoda mayor’s office city allocates a plot of land.
He added that as another option he could rent stadiums for organization of sports activities for schoolchildren in Tursunzoda instead of the Committee for Youth, Sports and Tourism Affairs.
Representative of the Committee for Youth, Sports and Tourism Affairs, Mr. Jourabek Sharipov, however, refused both proposals of Mr. Kabiri. “The stadium should be constructed where it had been situated” said Sharipov. “The stadium should be close to school.”
IRP leader then noted that he was ready to construct a sports complex in the place of the market, if the Tursunzoda mayor’s office allocates a plot of land for construction of a new market or the court should invite international experts to assess the actual cost of the market and that amount should be paid to him.
Representative of notary, Ms. Sitora Kholmatova, and ex-mayor of Tursunzoda, Homidullo Alisherov, who were summoned to the court as witnesses noted that a deal between Ms. Mastoura Rahmatulloyeva and Ms. Lutfiya Nematova on purchase and sale of the market had been made without violation of law.
Representative of the Tax Committee, Mr. Amirbek Nazarov, who was also summoned to the court as a witness, noted the market Sakhovat paid all taxes in time.
IRP leader Muhiddin Kabiri has noted that the case is politically motivated.
