KULOB, April 12, Asia-Plus  -- The Kulob prosecutor’s office has issued an arrest warrant for resident of Khatlon’s Vose district Azamjon Mirzoyev, who is also known in the region as Azam the Business.    

The deputy Khatlon prosecutor in charge of the Kulob region, Alfattoh Roziqov, told Asia-Plus that from 1999 to 2006, Mirzoyev was head of the farming unit named after Safarzoda in the Vose district and over the mentioned period, he had illegally allotted plots ranging from 0.1 to 13 hectares for housing and sowing with various agricultural crops. 

A damage caused to the state by illegal actions of Mirzoyev has been estimated at 135,000 somonis (equivalent to $39,500), the prosecutor said.  The Kulob prosecutor’s office has brought formal charges against Mirzoyev under the provisions of three articles of the Penal Code of Tajikistan – Article 247 (fraud), Article 295 (abuse of powers by employees of commercial and other organizations), and Article 334 (arbitrariness).  

Roziqov noted that the Kulob anticorruption directorate is heading investigation in Mirzoyev’s case.