407 officials of state-owned companies have been held administratively liable in Uzbekistan since the taking of effect of the Conflict of Interest Law in December 2024, announced Akmal Burkhanov, Director of the Anti-Corruption Agency at a meeting of the Legislative Chamber on September 16.
According to him, overn 95,600 civil servants were tested on the conflicts of interest preventing proficiency. While, 85,500 employees received training, and over 100 outreach events were organized.
Before the law came into effect, 213 cases were identified in which close relatives worked in the same government body as immediate subordinates. Furthermore, 1,513 employees combined civil service with business activity, and measures were taken in response to these cases.
Akmal Burkhanov noted that anti-corruption assessments had been conducted on 2,677 draft regulations, with 1,013 corruption-causing factors identified in 455 of them. In 2024, assessments also covered 692 existing documents in the areas of citizenship, family, education, science, culture, and information policy. Ninety-one corruption-causing factors were identified in 68 regulations.
Furthermore, over the past six years, 791 individuals have been prosecuted for violations in public procurement. The largest number of violators were employees of preschool and school education (149 cases), healthcare (116 cases), and local governments (73 cases).
The number of administrative violations in this area is growing: 662 cases were recorded in 2022, 1,376 in 2023, 1,334 in 2024, and 658 in the first six months of 2025.
The main violations relate to direct contracts in violation of the law (298 billion soums), procurement at inflated prices (152 billion soums), violations during tenders and competitions (145 billion soums), failure to post information on the portal (18.8 billion soums), incorrect selection of procurement methods (9.1 billion soums), lack of contract review (1.4 billion soums), and conflicts of interest (1.3 billion soums).
According to Burkhanov, as part of the fight against the shadow economy, an inventory check of 673,000 entities was conducted, which allowed for the recovery of 16 trillion soums for the budget by reflecting hidden transactions in official reporting.
