In Uzbekistan, persons convicted of fraud cannot be released through parole or commutation as the law stipulates this on amendments to the Criminal Code approved by Uzbekistan's Senate on April 6. This means that persons convicted of embezzlement, fraud, tax evasion, or bribery-related crimes would not be granted parole and commutation of sentence.
Deputy Chairman of the Judicial and Legal Affairs and Anti-Corruption Committee Shukhrat Chulliyev noted that the volume of fraud-related crimes 'among ordinary citizens and officials' had jumped recently.
After the President signs the law and the document comes into force, 'the crooks will also sit [in prison] from bell to bell,' he said.
'In practice, we often find that someone is sentenced to a five or six years jail sentence, and those who steal billions from the people or public money serve only a third of this long sentence and are released. So they only serve a year in prison and think, and I'll get out and be free to use the hidden money', he said.
'Now, if they are given six years of imprisonment, they will be sentenced to six years; if eight years of imprisonment is indicated, then eight years; those persons would have to sit in jail from bell to bell. So, I think, after toughening, the number of fraud cases will decline', the Senator added.
Article 167 (embezzlement or embezzlement), Article 168 (fraud), and Article 184 CC (tax evasion) do not impose a penalty of deprivation of liberty and imprisonment for material damage caused, media reports.
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