KHUJAND, April 30, 2009, Asia-Plus  -- The Konibodom prosecutor’s office on April 27 instituted criminal proceedings against local resident, Ms. Gulbahor Homidova, on illegal migration organization charges.

According to press service of the Sughd police directorate, the preliminary investigation has established that she took 5,000 Russian rubles from local residents, a 20-year-old Daler Qayumov and a 54-year-old Kamoliddin Tukhliboyev, promising to send them to the Russian Federation for seasonal work.

We will recall that it is already the second case of instituting criminal proceedings in the Sughd province on charge of organization of illegal migration.

As it had been reported earlier, a Kazakh woman was detained in northern Tajikistan in late March.  A 44-yerar-old Dildar Sabitova was arrested at a bus terminal Rohi Safed, in Khujand on March 25, while arranging a trip for 12 Tajik seasonal workers to Kazakhstan.  According to the migration service officials, Ms. Sabitova did not have a license to hire labor migrants for work in Kazakhstan.  Her arrest was the first case of that kind in Sughd.