DUSHANBE , March 27, Asia-Plus - A trial of nine persons, including officials from the Dushanbe orphanage “Chorbogh” has been scheduled for late March.

Nasrullo Karimov, investigator from the Dushanbe prosecutor’s office, has told Asia-Plus that court familiarized itself with materials of the case of nine persons, including officials from the “Chorbogh” orphanage, and the trial is scheduled for March 29.   

As it had been reported earlier, the case of investigation of the cause of the tragic “Chorbogh” fire was brought into a court in the Ismoili Somoni district of Dushanbe on March 2.  Nine persons face criminal charges; of them, three, including the orphanage director Sadullo Yatimov, are under arrest and the remaining six others have given written undertakings not to leave a place.

            The orphanage director faces charges under six articles of Tajikistan ’s Criminal Code, including negligent homicide, abuse of power, negligence, service forgery, embezzlement of state funds, and misappropriation of foreign aid.        

            We will recall that a blaze broke out at the “Chorbogh” orphanage for children with intellectual disabilities in Dushanbe early on January 8, killing at least 13 children and injuring at least two others.  77 children were rescued, with one survivor with second-degree burns hospitalized in a burn-treatment facility.