DUSHANBE, November 20, 2009, Asia-Plus — Officers from the Khatlon organized crime control police recently solved a crime of baby selling that was committed in the province in 1998 already.
Speaking in an interview with Asia-Plus, Ravshan Irsaliyev, a chief inspector at the Khatlon regional department for combating organized crime (organized crime control police),said that while investing information received, they had revealed that Ms. M.J., resident of Khatlon’s Shahritus district, sold her four-year-old son and one-year-old daughter to different families in 1998.
“She sold her son for 25,000 Tajik rubes and her daughter for 10,000 Tajik rubles (the ruble was the currency of Tajikistan between May 10, 1995 and October 29, 2000 – Asia-Plus),” said Irsaliyev, “The woman said that she had been motivated by hard economic conditions in the family.”
Criminal proceedings have been instituted against both M.J. and adopting parents; however, their criminal cases have been dropped under the amnesty law adopted in the country last month.
“The children will be left in the adopting families; their mother does not lay claim to them,” Irsaliyev said.
