DUSHANBE, January 30, 2010, Asia-Plus — By president’s decree of January 30 Sherkhon Salimzoda, formerly State Adviser to the President for Legal Matters and President’s Representative to Parliament, was appointed the Prosecutor-General of Tajikistan, replacing Bobojon Bobokhonov, according to presidential press service.
Bobojon Bobokhonov had held the position of Tajik chief prosecutor for 10 years, since April 2000.
We will recall that in March 2009, the parliament’s upper house (Majlisi Milli) confirmed then chief prosecutor Bobojon Bobokhonov for one year in his post.
Sherkhon Salimzoda, 53, was born in Khatlon’s Temourmalik district on January 1, 1957.
He graduated from the Faculty of Law at
Tajik
National
University
in 1979.
In 998-2002, Salimzoda was prosecutor of
Dushanbe
.
From March 2005 to January 2007, he was member of the Majlisi Namoyandagon (
Tajikistan
’s lower chamber of parliament).
From January 10 2007 to June 4, 2009, Salimzoda was director of the Agency for State Financial Control and Combating Corruption.
From June 4, 2009 to January 30, 2010, he was State Adviser to the President for Legal Matters and President’s Representative to Parliament.
Sherkhon Salimzoda is married with five children.
We will recall that under the country’s Constitution, the Majlisi Milli gives consent to the appointment and relieving of the Procurator General and his deputies.
