Transport Prosecutor’s Office reports about looting and embezzlement in road construction sector

The Transport Prosecutor’s Office of Uzbekistan provided information about violations of legislation in the field of road construction.

In 2020, about 40 criminal cases were initiated by the Republican Transport Prosecutor’s Office on looting and embezzlement. 11.5 billion soums of state property, allocated for the construction of roads and bridges, were misappropriated.

Also, there were a number of corruption cases.

According to Alisher Majidov, Transport Prosecutor, certain state standards should be changed in order to improve the use of roads. For example, some roads, built in the Soviet period, were designed for 14-ton trucks, and now 80-ton vehicles are using them. 

“We have made appropriate proposals, and state standards are expected to be changed,” he said at a press conference on February 3.

Shukhrat Nazarov, First Deputy Chairman of the State Committee for Roads, who participated in the press conference, focused on the monopoly of design institutes and spoke about open tenders.

“By the decrees of the President adopted at the end of 2019, significant steps were taken to eliminate conflicts of interest in the road sector. The monopoly of design institutes has been completely eliminated. You can receive project applications through open tenders, participate as an executor,” Nazarov said.