The Ministry of Internal Affairs of Tajikistan has identified those police officers reported by the Turkish tourist and brought them to justice.
According to the press service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Tajikistan, the material of the Turkish tourist Mehmet Genjah appeared on the Internet with the title "Nowhere in the world do policemen take as many bribes as in Tajikistan".
"During the verification of this material, it was revealed that some traffic police officers from the cities of Dushanbe, Kulyab, Shokhin and Darvaz districts committed offenses", – the press service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs reports.
By order of the Minister of Internal Affairs of Tajikistan of August 28, 2017, 25 policemen were brought to disciplinary responsibility.
A few days earlier, the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Tajikistan began an investigation following the publication of Radio Ozodi, in which a foreign tourist told that local policemen who were on duty at Somoni monument extorted money from him.
Professor Stohr Uwe did not expect that his vivid and pleasant impressions of traveling around Tajikistan would be spoiled by the extortion of the guards of order, writes Ozodi.
On August 23 at the monument to Ismoil Somoni in the center of Dushanbe, police officers approached him and in broken Russian said that he must first pay them money, and then take photos of the monument. "I asked them why they extort money in broad daylight, which they answered – you Americans have money – they do not peck at the money", – scientist-traveler said to radio correspondent on August 25.
Policemen lagged behind him and allowed to photograph the monument only after the scientist told them that he was not an American, but a citizen of Germany..
As press secretary of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Tajikistan Umarjoni Emomali informed “AP”, the Ministry of Internal Affairs instructed to check this fact. The investigation will last for about a week, after that results will be reported. According to Emomali, the investigation will be conducted on the fact of publication, since an official statement from a German citizen about extortion to the police authorities has not been received.
