DUSHANBE, June 26, 2008, Asia-Plus — The chief of the Isfara tax inspectorate chief, Abduqodir Qalandarov, has been detained on suspicion of having been involved in bribery and forgery.
According to the Agency for State Financial Control and Combating Corruption, Qalandarov was caught red-handed in early June when he was taking 50 somonis from local residents for fake permit for realization of 74,000 packs of counterfeit cigarettes PINE.
The preliminary investigation has established that damage caused to state by illegal actions of Abduqodir Qalandarov has amounted to 2.2 million somonis, the source at the anticorruption directorate said.
Criminal proceedings have been instituted against Qalandarov under the provisions of three articles of Tajikistan’s Penal Code: Article 340 (document forgery); Article 292 (tax evasion); and Article 318 (illegal entrepreneurship).
