Criminal group which extorted money from exporters-businessmen detained in Tashkent

The criminal group demanded a payment of 40 cents from the profit received from each kg of agricultural products exported.

The MIA Criminal Investigation Department has arrested a criminal group that demanded payments from entrepreneurs exporting agricultural products, the MIA information service reports.

Officials of an LLC registered in the city of Margilon, Fergana region, operating in the Moscow city of the Russian Federation, announced that since 2018, they have been exerted various pressures and appointed a payment of 40 cents from the profit received from each kg of agricultural products exported.

This group demanded a total of $15,126 from the profits received from the products sent to the RF during the third week of May.

On May 23, 2023, during an operative event conducted by employees of the MIA Criminal Investigation Service, the Department of Combating Corruption and Economic Crimes, in a restaurant located in the Almazar district of Tashkent city, the suspects who extorted money were caught red-handed.

On this fact, the MIA Investigation Department initiated a criminal case under Paragraph “a”, Article 165-3 of the Criminal Code, and the suspects were detained in accordance with Article 221 of the Criminal Procedural Code.