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Uzbekistan Cracks Down on Corruption: Officials Charged with Embezzlement and Forgery in Tax Scandal

  • Uzbekistan is actively combating illegal appropriation of state funds, abuse of power, and document forgery.
  • The State Security Service of Uzbekistan uncovered serious incidents of corruption and economic crimes.
  • Officials in the tax system falsified data in the Stability Rating program, causing significant state losses.
  • They illegally returned 82 billion soums of VAT by manipulating risk categories.
  • A criminal case was initiated for embezzlement and forgery under the Criminal Code of Uzbekistan.
  • A private company unlawfully obtained a VAT refund of 5.5 billion soums using fake documents.
  • Two State Tax Committee employees and several company officials were detained.
  • Investigative searches led to the seizure of large amounts of money, vehicles, electronic cigarettes, and equipment.

Source: zamin.uz

Note that this post was (partially) written with the help of AI. It is always useful to review the original source material, and where needed to obtain (local) advice from a specialist.

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