DUSHANBE, December 2, 2009, Asia-Plus  -- Amonullo Qayumov, the deputy chief accountant for Barqi Tojik (Tajik electric systems) power holding, has been detained on suspicion of having embezzled 1.225 million somoni, according to the Agency for State Financial Control and Combating Corruption.

“Amonullo Qayumov and his four partners in crime have embezzled totaling 1.225 million somoni by forging documents,” said the source at the anticorruption agency, “Qayumov’s partners in crime have confessed to the embezzlement of state funds and reimbursed more than 700,000 somoni.  In the meantime, Amonullo Qayumov considers himself innocent of the charges he faces.”

The source said that one of crimes was committed by the suspects two years go, when they embezzled 238,000 somoni intended for purchase  of transformer for the Kulob region.

Criminal proceedings have been instituted on the embezzlement charges and an investigation is under way.