DUSHANBE, January 25, 2012, Asia-Plus  -- According to findings by the anticorruption agency, corruption cost Tajikistan at some 60 million somoni in 2011, director of the Agency for State Financial Control and Combating Corruption Fattoh Saidov told reporters in Dushanbe on January 24. 

“Some 500 inspections conducted by the anticorruption agency last year revealed some 60 million somoni worth of damage,” he said, noting that more than 50 percent (76.6 million somoni) of the damage has been reimbursed.

According to him, inspections revealed 15.7 million worth of damage in the subdivisions and enterprises of the Ministry of Energy and Industries, 9.5 million worth of damage in the subdivisions and enterprises of the Ministry of Agriculture, 1.8 million worth of damage in the subdivisions and enterprises of the Ministry of Land Reclamation and Water Resources, 6 million somoni worth of damage in the Customs Service, 1.3 million somoni worth of damage in the subdivisions and enterprises of the Ministry of Health, 3.6 million somoni worth of damage in the transportation sphere, more than 3 million somoni worth of damage in the communications sector, 2.3 million somoni worth of damage in the educational sector and so forth.

152 representatives from local authorities, 503 representatives from the ministries and agencies, including 140 law enforcement officers, and seven members of local councils were implicated in wrongdoing last year.

In 2011, officers from the Agency for State Financial Control and Combating Corruption detected 1,199 corruption-related and economic crimes.