DUSHANBE, April 7, 2014, Asia-Plus — Leaders of the Social-Democratic Party of Tajikistan (SDP) are sure that inspection of facilities owned by immediate relatives of Muhiddin Kabiri, the leader of the Islamic Revival Party of Tajikistan (IRP), is politically motivated.
SDP leader Rahmatillo Zoyirov considers that the re-division of property is going on in Tajikistan. All administrative resources have been used for this, including courts and law enforcement agencies, Zoyirov noted.
“Zayd Saidov has become the victim of this re-division of property and the cases of Marouf Oripov (director-general of M&P, the owner of the Orima supermarkets network) and Jourabek Okhounov (top manager of Movarounnahr, which is Tajikistan’s largest real estate development company) are also connected with the re-division of property in the country,” Zoyirov noted.
“It is the turn of the market owned by IPR leader’s relatives now. This case is politically motivated,” said SDP leader. “Moreover, the authorities prefer to keep quiet about those who privatized facilities first and then sold them for treble the amount they paid for them because these persons are members of another group.”
Meanwhile, Shokirjon Hakimov, the deputy head of the SDP, considers that it is a matter of pressure on progressive and politically advanced opponents.
He stressed that practically similar measures had been used against Sayfiddin Tourayev, Sulton Quvvatov, Zayd Saidov and others.
He further added that it was impossible to build a modern democratic state by removing alternative leaders from political arena.
We will recall that the anticorruption agency has reportedly instituted criminal proceedings against owners of the Sakhovat market located in Tursunzoda. IRP leader Muhiddin Kabiri and his relatives purchased that market in 2009 and his wife Mastoura Rahmatulloyeva was registered as owner of the market and their relative was registered as director of the market. The anticorruption agency claims that the previous owner of the market privatized that plot of land, in which the market is located, illegally. Muhiddin Kabiri has noted that the case is politically motivated.
