DUSHANBE, January 5, 2015, Asia-Plus – The ruling People’s Democratic Party (PDP) has nominated the chief of the Interior Ministry’s office in Khatlon, Major-General Anvar Taghoymurodov, for the lower house (Majlisi Namoyandagon) of the parliament (Majlisi Oli).

Taghoymurodov will run in the Qurghon Teppa single-mandate constituency.

Ms. Saodat Amirshoyeva represents the Qurghon Teppa single-mandate constituency in the current Majlisi Namoyandagon.

Anvar Taghoymurodov, 54, graduated from Tashkent’s Higher Police School in 1982.

In 1992-1999, he served as the chief of the criminal investigation department of the Interior Ministry’s office in Khatlon.  In 2000-2005, Taghoymurodov was deputy of the Majlisi Namoyandagon.  From 2005 to 2009, he served as the chief of the Interior Ministry criminal investigation department.  From 2009 to 2011, Taghoymurodov was the chief of the Interior Ministry organized crime control department (UBOP).  In 2011-2012, he served as Deputy Interior Minister.  In 2012, he was appointed to head the Interior Ministry’s office in Khatlon province.

We will recall that Anvar Taghoymurodov in late January 2011 filed the defamation lawsuit in the court in Dushanbe’s Firdavsi district against the Asia-Plus newspaper, asking for 1 million somoni as compensation for moral damage caused by article published by the newspaper.

The Interior Ministry high-ranking official who filed the lawsuit as private citizen claims that the article entitled “Investigation or Inquisition?” printed in the newspaper in December 2010 defames his honor and reputation.

The article published in the December 21, 2010 edition of the newspaper told of the use of torture on some suspects by UBOP agents in Sughd province.