KHOROG/KHUJAND, October 21, 2009, Asia-Plus — In a report released at a news conference in Khorog, the GBAO anticorruption directorate chief Yusuf Nazarshoyev revealed on October 20 that corruption has cost Gorno Badakhshan at more than 2 million somoni over the first nine months of this year.
According to him, inspections by the anticorruption directorate of 106 local enterprises and organizations revealed 27 crimes, including 21 corruption-related ones. Some 60 managers, including seven officials of local authorities, have been implicated in wrongdoing, and disciplinary and administrative action has been imposed upon them. Six officials have been sacked.
Nazarshoyev noted that the most serious financial crimes had been revealed in branches of The First MicroFinance Bank of Tajikistan (FMFB-T) in the Murgab and Vanj districts.
“When inspecting FMFB-T’s branch in Vanj, the anticorruption officers revealed that its head together with the branch’s teller had embezzled more than 922,000 somoni,” said the anticorruption directorate chief, “Head of FMFB-T’s branch in Murgab has embezzled more than 300,000 somoni.” The head of FMFB-T’s branch in Vanj has been detained, while the head of FMFB-T’s branch in Murgab is wanted by police, he added.
In the meantime, officers from the Sughd anticorruption directorate have detected 181 corruption-relate crimes in January-September this year, which is 29 crimes more than in the same period of last year, according to the Sughd anticorruption directorate chief Jumanazar Rahmatov.
Speaking to reporters in Khujand, Rahmatov said yesterday that corruption has cost northern Tajikistan at 7.832 million somoni.
Over the report period, the Sughd anticorruption directorate has inspected 136 local organizations and enterprises.
