Company head was arrested for water misuse in Tashkent
Crime
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26 August
4668The head of a company that illegally connected to the drinking water network in the Tashkent region has been sentenced to five years in prison. The "Tashkent Region Water Supply" Joint Stock Company (JSC) reported the arrest.
According to the report, the company "HTB-AS Invest" unauthorizedly connected to the drinking water system, resulting in a loss of approximately 295 million soums to the state.
The head of the enterprise, A.Kh., was found guilty of committing the crime outlined in Article 169, Part 3, Clause "v" (Mass Theft) of the Criminal Code.
He was sentenced to five years and one month in prison and fined 150 times the base amount, totaling 45 million soums.