DUSHANBE, June 20, 2012, Asia-Plus – Ex-prosecutor of Vose district Shermat Nourov has been released after giving a written undertaking not to leave the country.

An official source at the Agency for State Financial Control and Combating Corruption told Asia-Plus today that Shermat Nourov was released after fully repairing $100,000 damage caused to victims.

Investigation into the case is reportedly under way.

Criminal proceedings were instituted against Shermat Nourov on May 28 under the provisions of Article 247 of Tajikistan’ Penal Code – large-scale fraud with use of powers.  The criminal proceedings were instituted within the framework of the criminal case of Nizomkhon Jourayev.

“The preliminary investigation has established that Rustam Olimov, a prosecutor in the trail of the Jourayev brothers and their associates, met with Shermat Nourov, the then chief prosecutor of the Vose district, in February 2009 and asked him to influence the court decision on that case so that a less strict sentence would be passed on the defendants,” the source said.

According to him, Shermat Nourov gave 100,000 U.S. dollars from the representative of the Jourayev family.