DUSHANBE, July 14, 2008, Asia-Plus  -- Inspection by the State Agency for State Financial Control and Combating Corruption of the supply and sales activities of the Tajik state natural-gas distributor, Tojikgaz, has led to the detention of one of heads of Tojikgaz’s warehouses in Dushanbe, Narzullo Ikromov. 

According to the anticorruption agency, Ikromov has illegally written off more than 64,000 somonis’ worth of equipment and spare parts as obsolete equipment and embezzled the money made from that.

Criminal proceedings have been instituted against Ikromov under the provisions of two articles of Tajikistan’s Penal Code: Article 245 (embezzlement or misappropriation) and Article 340 (document forgery).