DUSHANBE, April 30, 2009, Asia-Plus — The Majlisi Namoyandagon (Tajikistan’s lower chamber of parliament) today endorsed amendments to the Constitutional Law “On Prosecutor’s Offices,” giving the head of the Agency for State Financial Control and Combating Corruption the right to institute criminal proceedings against prosecutors suspected of having been involved in corruption.
Speaking at a regular sitting of the fifth session of the Majlisi Namoyandagon of the third convocation today, the anticorruption agency chief Sherkhon Salimzoda noted that before that the agency could only investigate such cases but it did not have the right to institute criminal proceedings against prosecutors.
MP Abdumannon Kholiqov noted that under the present law on prosecutor’s offices, only the country’s chief prosecutor had the right to institute criminal proceedings against prosecutors. According to him, amendments made to the law would promote further strengthening of fight against corruption in prosecutor’s offices.
