Former senior employee of President’s Executive Office, Qadamjon Safizoda, will spent 8 ½ years in a high-security penal colony.
A court in Dushanbe’s Sino district sentenced Safizoda and six other persons to lengthy jail terms on June 14. The sentence followed their conviction on charges of illegal entrepreneurship.
The court sentenced Qadamjon Safizoda and Parviz Nazarov to 15 years in prison each and Vladimir Boboyev, Zuhail Sanginov, Arslon Mahkamov, Furqat Razzoqov and Hikmatullo Khojayev to 14 years in prison each.
The court's ruling was nearly identical to the prosecution's earlier demand for a 17-year prison term for Qadamjon Safizoda and a 13-year prison terms for remaining six defendants.
But in an amnesty Safizoda and Nazarov’s prison sentence was commuted to 8 ½ years' imprisonment, while the prison sentence of Vladimir Boboyev, Zuhail Sanginov, Arslon Mahkamov, Furqat Razzoqov and Hikmatullo Khojayev was commuted to seven years’ imprisonment. All of them will serve their terms in a high-security penal colony.
Recall, the defendants are charged with organization of illegal termination of incoming calls of two mobile phone operators – Megafon Tajikistan and Beeline.
Criminal proceedings have been instituted against them under the provisions of four articles of Tajikistan’s Penal Code: Article 259 (2) — illegal entrepreneurship conducted by an organized group; Article 244 – theft; Article 299 — unauthorized modification of computer information; and article 253 — causing property losses by deception. The matter concerns embezzlement of eight million somoni.
The 34-year-old Qadamjon Safizoda, the head of the Center for Information and Communications Technologies at President’s Executive Office, was detained on suspicion of corruption in April last year. Safizoda was caught-red-handed on April 3 while taking bribe.
By president’s decree Safizoda was relieved of his post of head the Center for Information and Communications Technologies at President’s Executive Office on April 4.
