The Agency for the State Financial Control and Combating Corruption has moved to a new building.
An official opening ceremony of a new seven-story building of the anticorruption agency took place on December 17. The ceremony was attended by President Emomali Rahmon and Dushanbe Mayor Rustam Emomali.
According to the Tajik president’s official website, Emomali Rahmon donated 175 computers to the State Financial Control and Combating Corruption.
The anticorruption agency was created by president’s decree of January 10, 2007. It performs functions previously carried out by the State Financial Control Committee, Main Tax Police Directorate, Directorate for Combating Corruption and other agencies.
The agency is placed under president’s direct supervision, and it has staff of 450.
Tajikistan signed up to the United Nations Convention against Corruption in 2006 and an anticorruption strategy for 2013-2020 was adopted in 2012.
