The head specialist of the Namangan regional department of the Migration Agency and an employee of the central apparatus were detained on suspicion of committing large-scale fraud by taking money from citizens in exchange for sending them to work in South Korea, during an urgent operation conducted by the State Security Service.
It is noted that they promised to send more than 80 citizens abroad and received a total of over 700 thousand US dollars.
One of them was caught while receiving 41 thousand dollars, and the other while receiving 15 thousand dollars.
Regarding this case, a criminal case has been initiated under Article 168 (Fraud) and Articles 28, 211 (Complicity in bribery) of the Criminal Code, and the investigation is ongoing to identify the remaining members of the criminal group.
