An attorney under the guise of an official of internal affairs and his partner were arrested. The law enforcement agencies reported this to darakchi.uz.
It was reported that, based on a complaint received by the “Call-center” of the State Security Service, an urgent operation was conducted in collaboration with the Department for Combating Economic Crimes under the Prosecutor General's Office.
In this operation, a citizen of Tashkent, born in 1980, previously convicted for a fraud-related crime, introduced his partner - an advocate from a law firm active in the capital - as a high-ranking official working in the Ministry of Internal Affairs’ Department for the Execution of Punishments, through whom he demanded $5,000 from the plaintiff in exchange for transferring a convict, who in 2024 was sentenced to 8 years and 7 months of imprisonment and is currently serving his term in the No. 1 penal colony in Bukhara region, to the No. 7 prison in Tashkent region.
However, these individuals were arrested with physical evidence at the time of receiving the requested sum of money, and a criminal case was initiated against them under Articles 168 and 28,211 of the Criminal Code, and detention was imposed as a precautionary measure.
