DUSHANBE, December 9, 2009, Asia-Plus  -- Over the first eleven months of this year, the Agency for State Financial Control and Combating Corruption has revealed 802 corruption-related crimes in Tajikistan, the deputy director of the anticorruption agency, Abdurahim Abdulhasanov, remarked at a corruption prevention conference in Dushanbe today.

According to him, 2,160 corruption-related crimes, including 583 cases of embezzlement of state funds on an especially large scale, have been detected in the country since 2006, when the anticorruption agency was established.  Besides, 406 bribery cases, 160 malfeasance cases, 110 tax and customs crimes and 352 office abuse cases have been revealed in the country over the past four years.

Abdulhasanov noted that according to findings by the anticorruption agency, corruption has cost Tajikistan at 139.22 million somoni since 2006; of that, 34.972 million somoni have been reimbursed to this day.

The conference to discuss ways to prevent corruption in Tajikistan was organized by the UNDP CO in Tajikistan in cooperation with Tajikistan’s Agency for State financial Control and Combating Corruption.  It was timed to coincide with International Corruption Day, which is marked throughout the world on December 9.