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Corruption News
The Akaltyn District Criminal Court has sentenced six people — including the teahouse manager and staff from an unlicensed gas-filling station — over a December 2025 explosion that killed six cooks at the Bek teahouse in Gulistan. The court also ordered the seizure of real estate and vehicles worth 8.7 billion soums.
President Shavkat Mirziyoyev signed legislation imposing life imprisonment for sexual violence against children under 14, as the government simultaneously announced a 30% rise in heating tariffs, dismissed the defense minister, reshuffled four Tashkent district governors, and arrested a deputy district governor for a $25,000 bribe.
A visually impaired resident of Karakul district identified and refused a 10 million soum cash demand linked to a land subsidy application after listening to an audio guide on anti-corruption law — the first practical test of a legal literacy project that has since reached more than 40,000 people across Uzbekistan.
Representatives of non-governmental organizations from all 14 regions of Uzbekistan have completed a structured training program on public oversight, open data analysis, and anti-corruption legislative review, under a project jointly implemented by the Anti-Corruption Agency and international partners from Latvia and Kyrgyzstan.
Kazakhstan’s Supreme Audit Chamber has presented parliament with findings of financial losses, expired drugs dispensed to patients, and price markups of up to 600 percent in the public drug procurement system — triggering an unprecedented legal threat from the Health Ministry and calls for sweeping reform.
A Tashkent shell company capitalised at under $10,000 collected more than $100 million in Uzbek state gas contracts before disappearing. Ozodlik’s investigation traces its corporate network to President Mirziyoyev’s son-in-law Otabek Umarov through a web of UAE entities, a British citizenship-by-investment broker and the chairman of the national judo federation.
A Ministry of Investments official and five others have been detained across Samarkand, Jizzakh and Syrdarya regions after allegedly charging citizens up to $41,600 for fake US visa and migration services, the State Security Service announced.
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