DUSHANBE, October 29, 2012, Asia-Plus  -- Over the first nine months of this year, more than 400 million somoni (equivalent to some 84 million U.S. dollars) of dilapidated banknotes have been immobilized in Tajikistan over the first nine months of this year,  according to the National bank of Tajikistan (NBT).

239,700 million somoni (equivalent to some 50 million U.S. dollars) of dilapidated banknotes were immobilized in the country over the same period last year, the source at Tajik central bank said.   

Last year, 1.2 billion somoni of new banknotes were put into circulation and 456.3 million somoni of dilapidated banknotes were immobilized.