Former head of the State Unitary Enterprise “Affordable Housing” has been detained on suspicion of fraud. New leadership promises that affordable apartment buildings will be commissioned in Dushanbe by the end of the next year.
“The first apartment building under the “Affordable Housing” project will be commissioned in September next year and the remaining seven apartment buildings will be commissioned by the end of the next year,” an official source at the Dushanbe mayor’s office told Asia-Plus in an interview.
Recall, shortcomings were revealed in activities of the SUE “Affordable Housing” in August this year and the Dushanbe prosecutor’s office has launched an investigation into the enterprise’s activities.
The investigation has reportedly revealed that state funds allocated for the construction of apartment blocks were misused.
The head of the SUE “Affordable Housing”, Nourullo Naimov, was sacked and Parviz Abdurahimzoda was appointed to head the facility.
Nourullo Naimov was later detained on suspicion of fraud, a source at the Dushanbe prosecutor’s office said.
The “Affordable Housing” project is an initiative, supported by the Dushanbe mayor’s office. This government’s project was launched in 2013 and was supposed to lead to the hard-up families moving into new homes by September 2015. But building work was serially delayed, causing alarm among hopeful homebuyers that had put down deposits.
According to some sources, the price for one square meter in the affordable apartment buildings will be 3,214 somoni (equivalent to 343 U.S. dollars).
