Cashback worth 34.8 billion soums embezzled in Navoi

A case of illegal misappropriation of 34.8 billion soums in cashback funds through the Soliq Mobile app has been identified in Navoi region. The Department for Combating Economic Crimes under the Prosecutor General’s Office reported this.

It was noted that a pre-investigation check conducted by the department’s Navoi City Office found that officials of 13 limited liability companies and other individuals had conspired with one another.

According to the findings, they issued fake electronic invoices claiming that products worth 4.5 trillion soums had been supplied, showed that sales had been made through cash registers, and provided citizens with fake purchase receipts. The investigation found that no real goods or financial transactions had been carried out by these LLCs. Nevertheless, a total of 34.8 billion soums in cashback was accrued to 105,524 citizens through the Soliq Mobile app. It was established that these funds had been fraudulently misappropriated.

A criminal case has been opened under Article 167 of the Criminal Code, which concerns embezzlement or misappropriation through waste, and Article 228, which concerns the preparation, forgery or use of forged documents. Investigative actions are currently underway.

Earlier, a scheme involving the illegal receipt of cashback through 125 billion soums in artificial VAT was uncovered in Fergana.

Mumtozbegim Abdumominova