DUSHANBE, July 15, 2008, Asia-Plus — Inspection by officers from the Agency for State Financial Control and Combating Corruption of financial activities of the State Unitary Enterprise Zarya Vostoka in the northern city of Taboshar has revealed numerous instances of violation of the country’s tax legislation, according to head office of the anticorruption agency in Dushanbe.
Damage caused to the country’s economy by illegal activities of the plant’s administrators over the past two years has amounted to 555,500 somonis, the source at the anticorruption agency said.
According to him, the Zarya Vostoka director general Abdurahim Rasoulov and the plant’s chief accountant Normuhammad Umarov are suspected of having been involved in tax evasion. Criminal proceedings have been instituted against Normuhammad Umarov under the provisions of Article 292 of the Tajik Penal Code – tax evasion.
“Although the damage has been repaid completely during the preliminary investigation, the anticorruption agency has applied to the Sughd prosecutor’s office, asking to make Abdurahim Rasoulov answerable for the committed crime,” the source said.
It is to be noted that Abdurahim Rasoulov is member of the Taboshar city legislature (Majlis) and as member of the legislature, he posses the right of inviolability. The decision regarding the repeal of his inviolability should be adopted by the Taboshar legislature upon the recommendation of the Sughd chief prosecutor.
