Department under Prosecutor General’s Office transformed
25/05/2018 22:18
Department under Prosecutor General’s Office transformed
25/05/2018 22:18
Tashkent, Uzbekistan (UzDaily.com) -- Uzbek President Shavkat Mirziyoyev signed a decree "On measures to radically improve the efficiency of using budget funds and improve mechanisms to combat economic crime."
According to the document, the Department for Combating Tax, Currency Crimes and Legalization of Criminal Incomes under the General Prosecutor’s Office was reorganized into the Department for Combating Economic Crimes under the Prosecutor General’s Office.
The Department carries out operational-investigative activities, pre-investigation checks and inquiries on economic and corruption crimes, facts of legalization of criminal proceeds, financing of terrorism and financing the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction.
At the same time, it retains the function of a specially authorized state body on combating the legalization of proceeds from crime, financing of terrorism and financing the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction.
The body will conduct control and supervisory functions in respect of individual entities that carry out transactions with cash or other property.
The Anti-Money Laundering and Combating the Financing of Terrorism Division of the Department has the right to issue orders to suspend transactions with cash or other property for up to 30 working days.
From 1 July, the Center for Comprehensive Examination of Projects and Import Contracts under National Agency for Project Management will begin to systematically report to the Department suspicious transactions identified during the course of the operation.
In addition, the Department is allowed to request and receive information from the Central Bank and the Ministry of Finance related to the movement of public funds in bank accounts and a single treasury account.
Particular attention will be paid to spending budgetary funds of the budget system and state trust funds, foreign grants received under contracts concluded by the President and Government, and foreign loans attracted under the state guarantee.
Based on the results of the operative-search activity in this direction, the Department will initiate inspections of state organizations and enterprises from state-owned shares, as well as other economic entities, regardless of the form of ownership.
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