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Interior Ministry: Corrupt officials cause billions of soms in damage to state

Since the beginning of the year, the Criminal Police Department for Suppressing Money Laundering has uncovered 107 economic and corruption-related crimes, the Interior Ministry’s press service reported.

«Of these, 25 materials were sent to court, more than 90 cases are being investigated, 14 citizens are under arrest and 21 people have been handed notices of suspicion of committing a crime,» the statement says.

Damage caused to the state is estimated at 1,250 billion soms and $3.5 million.

As of today, 60 million soms and $220,000 have been compensated. Cash in the amount of 570 million soms has been seized.

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