Head of regional SUE “Suvoqava” misappropriates 1.5 billion soums in Fergana

The prosecutor’s office revealed a crime committed by officials and other persons of the “Invest Qurilish Suv Montaj” unitary enterprise and the “Suvoqava” state unitary enterprise of the Fergana region (now “Fargona Suv Ta’minoti” LLC), UzA reports.

In the course of the investigation, it was revealed that a large amount of budget funds were embezzled.

“Every year, large funds are allocated to provide the population with drinking water, and active work in this direction is being carried out at places. However, some managers of the water supply system think only of their own pockets,” the statement reads.

For example, the mahallas “Katta Boybucha”, “Bogish” in the Dangara district, “Beglar”, “Kungirot”, “Maslahat” in the Buvayda district, the 4th block “Mindonobod” in the Fergana district have not been provided with drinking water so far.

“Officials of the “Invest Qurilish Suv Montaj” unitary enterprise and the SUE “Suvoqava” falsified documents, overstating prices and embezzled a large amount of funds, which resulted in a slowdown in the implementation of the planned projects,” the report adds.

The head of the regional SUE “Suvoqava”, previously acquitted under Article 70 of the Criminal Code by the decision of the Yazyavan district court on criminal proceedings, did not draw appropriate conclusions from this. On the contrary, he further expanded his criminal activities aimed at plundering state property and budget funds.

Thus, officials of the SUE “Suvoqava” and LLC “Santekh tamir elektromontaj” entered into a criminal conspiracy. As a result, 154 million 297 thousand soums were stolen.

Officials of the SUE “Suvoqava” organized another conspiracy with the LLC “Zamin Qurilish Montaj” – as a result of which more than 500 million soums of funds were embezzled. 

The head of the regional SUE also involved his wife in his criminal activities, giving this a legal character. That is, in 2018-2019, when 334 electricity meters were replaced at city and district water supply facilities, new “work” was carried out by an individual entrepreneur. As a result, the criminal couple was able to misappropriate another 228 million 483.5 thousand soums. 

Thus, the head of the regional SUE “Suvoqava”, having entered into an agreement with a group of persons, in the course of his activities misappropriated a total of over 1 billion 505 million 399.9 thousand soums. 

“Instead of transferring funds collected for the provision of drinking water supply and sewerage services to consumers by the district and city branches of SUE “Suvoqava” to the company’s bank account, the manager allowed them to be plundered and regularly received his “share” from these funds. He and his accomplices have committed several such crimes,” the report concludes.

It is noted that the perpetrators will be punished in accordance with the law.