Mayor of Yangiyol was fired

Today, November 15, Dilshod Sultanov was relieved of his duties as mayor of Yangiyol at an extraordinary session of the Yangiyol City Council, according to a report from the Tashkent regional government.

The session's agenda included an organizational issue, and the decision by regional governor Zoyir Mirzayev to dismiss Sultanov was approved.

The reason for Sultanov's dismissal has not been disclosed.

For reference, Dilshod Sultanov, born in 1980, graduated from the Tashkent Institute of Railway Engineers in 2002 with a degree in economics. He began his career in the Ministry of Finance in 2003. In September 2017, he was appointed head of the State Budget Directorate at the Ministry of Finance. Sultanov, who held positions as the deputy head of the Ministry of Finance, head of the Treasury Department since 2018, and deputy minister of Economy and Finance since February 2023, became the mayor of Yangiyol in August of the previous year.

It is worth noting that earlier, Erkin Muhiddinov, the first deputy mayor of the Tashkent region, and Botir Alimbekov, the first deputy of the Ministry of Agriculture and Water Management, were also dismissed.