A prosecutor in the trial of former senior employee of President’s Executive Office, Qadamjon Safizoda, on June 8 asked a court in Dushanbe’s Sino district to sentence Safizoda to a 17-year prison term.
Six other persons are in the dock together with Qadamjon Safizoda and the prosecutor asked the court to sentence them to jail terms between 13 and 17 years.
Qadamjon Safizoda, Parviz Nazarov, Vladimir Boboyev, Zuhail Sanginov, Arslon Mahkamov, Furqat Razzoqov and Hikmatullo Khojayev are charged with organization of illegal termination of incoming calls of two mobile phone operators – Megafon Tajikistan and Beeline.
Criminal proceedings have been instituted against them under the provisions of four articles of Tajikistan’s Penal Code: Article 259 (2) — illegal entrepreneurship conducted by an organized group; Article 244 – theft; Article 299 — unauthorized modification of computer information; and article 253 — causing property losses by deception. The matter concerns embezzlement of eight million somoni.
A verdict is expected next week.
Recall, a 34-year-old Qadamjon Safizoda, the head of the Center for Information and Communications Technologies at President’s Executive Office, was detained on suspicion of corruption in April last year. Safizoda was caught-red-handed on April 3 while taking bribe.
By president’s decree Safizoda was relieved of his post of head the Center for Information and Communications Technologies at President’s Executive Office on April 4.
