Asia-Plus: 2 кормандони тиб Норак ба тасарруфи 530 ҳазор ҷарима 100 ҳазор

The article reports that on 10 March 2026 the Norak City Court convicted Sirojiddin Boev, chief accountant, and Muhiddin Yadgorov, warehouse manager, of the Norak Primary Health Care institution of embezzlement and service forgery under Article 245 part 4(b) and Article 323 of the Criminal Code. According to the Anti-Corruption Agency announcement of 15 April 2026, between 2022 and 2025 Boev recorded 530,050 somoni of budget funds in accounting reports as trade union and employee insurance payments and then transferred the money to Yadgorov’s bank account, with Yadgorov’s help appropriating the funds. The article reports that the court imposed a fine of 52,500 somoni on Boev (700 calculation indicators at 2025 rates) and 45,000 somoni on Yadgorov (600 calculation indicators). A court representative told Asia-Plus that both defendants had returned the embezzled sum to the state budget, though it is unclear whether the fines themselves have been paid. The article notes that the defendants’ own views on the verdict are unknown. The article places the case within a wider pattern of corruption and fraud in Tajikistan’s health sector, citing the case of Bakhtovar Siddiqov, chief accountant of Varzob central hospital, suspected of embezzling more than 1.1 million somoni, who was sentenced by the Varzob district court on 6 March to 11 years in prison. It also cites Farrukh Maqsudzoda, former head of the Sughd regional health department, who was detained for three months on bribery allegations and released after paying a 300,000 somoni fine. The article reports the Anti-Corruption Agency’s figure of 1,979 corruption offences involving 1,207 persons in the previous year.