Tashkent Bureau of Compulsory Enforcement Hound unjustly closed cases worth 200 billion soums

The Anti-Corruption Agency has reported that officials at the Bureau of Compulsory Enforcement (BCE) in Shaykhontohur district, Tashkent, improperly closed 200 enforcement cases valued at 202.9 billion soums, in violation of legal requirements.

The investigation revealed that the BCE improperly halted actions to collect tax debts, including 19 billion soums owed by "S.B" LLC and 179.2 million soums by "P.P" LLC. Due to these unjustified terminations, these tax debts remain uncollected.

Additional cases of premature closure include tax debt collections of 26.3 billion soums from "SCG" LLC, 19.4 billion soums from "R.F.P." LLC, and 1.7 billion soums from "Y.M.S.E.T" LLC. In these cases, enforcement was terminated despite the registered addresses of these companies being available.

Further discrepancies were found in cases involving other organizations and individuals, including the unjustified termination of 1.9 billion soums due to "B.P.T" LLC, 1.1 billion soums for "S" JSC, and 332 million soums of criminal damages collected from various debtors.

The Tashkent City Prosecutor's Office has initiated a criminal case under the relevant articles of Uzbekistan’s Criminal Code based on the findings. The investigation is ongoing.

Earlier this year, in a separate case, BCE and customs officials in Tashkent were also implicated in corruption, with employees caught accepting bribes as part of anti-corruption efforts in the region.