It became known that during the case being considered by the Mirzo Ulugbek district court on criminal cases of Tashkent city, an additional tax of 8.7 billion soums was assessed to a registered textile LLC in Surkhandarya. After the court's ruling to conduct a reinvestigation, the chief inspector of the Tax Audit department, who was conducting this process, took $5,000 from the LLC representatives, promising to cancel the additional tax.
However, he could not cancel the assessed 8.7 billion soums. For this reason, when he tried to return the bribe he had taken—$5,000—to the LLC representatives, he was caught red-handed by State Security Service officers with material evidence.
A criminal case has been initiated against the inspector under Part 2, paragraph "v" of Article 210 of the Criminal Code (bribe-taking), and the preventive measure of "detention" has been applied. Investigative actions are ongoing.
