QURGHON TEPPA, December 22, 2012, Asia-Plus  -- The anticorruption agency’s office in Khatlon province has completed investigation into the case of Naim Taghoyev, former chief accountant with the branch of Tajprombank in the Yovon district and the case has moved to the Yovon district court.

“Taghoyev is charged with embezzlement of more than 731,000 somoni,” Hikmatullo Ismatov, an official with the anticorruption agency’s office in Khatlon, told Asia-Plus in an interview.  “Naim Taghoyev served as the chief accountant for Tajprombank’s branch in Yovon from 2004 and 2006 and he has embezzled 731,315 somoni over the report period through falsifying the bank documents.”

According to him, criminal proceedings were instituted against Taghoyev in 2010 under the provisions of Article 245 (4) of Tajikistan’s Penal Code but he left the country before his arrest warrant was issued.  Taghoyev was reportedly detained by Russia police in the Russian city of Tver in February this year and on August 23, 2012 he was extradited to Tajikistan.

Founded in 1995, Tajik industrial bank for reconstruction and development, Tajprombank, with headquarters in Dushanbe, has 21 branches, 11 departments and 15 money-transfer offices across the country.