Senate Speaker Tanzila Norboyeva told a plenary session on 23 April 2021 that more than 301 billion soum was stolen from over 2,500 state institutions in 2020, as corruption cases among officials rose to 1,723 and irrigation fraud surged nearly tenfold.
Senate Chairwoman Tanzila Norboyeva told a plenary session that hokims are wrongly seeking council approval for money already spent, and demanded councils authorise budgets in advance — just as parliament does at the national level.
