DUSHANBE, February 1, 2010, Asia-Plus — An official with the Prosecutor-General’s Office fraud charge.
According to the Agency for State Financial Control and Combating Corruption, Safarali Sharipov, a chief prosecutor with the forensic department of the Prosecutor-General’s Office, had prepared forged documents for the transfer of Tajik national F.S., serving his sentence in prison in Russia, to prison in Tajikistan. For this, the prosecutor took 3,600 U.S. dollars from his relatives, the source said.
Criminal proceedings have been instituted against Sharipov under the provisions of Article 247, Part 2 (fraud).
