A district division of the Compulsory Enforcement Bureau under the Prosecutor General’s Office has destroyed 277 forged driver’s licenses in Surkhandarya province, the bureau’s provincial press service said.
The Angor district division burned the documents in a special furnace in accordance with the established procedure and safety requirements, the statement said.
The forged licenses had been used as physical evidence in a criminal case in which 11 people were sentenced, the press service said. It gave no further details of the case.
Forging documents by a group of people acting on a prior agreement is punishable by 2 to 3 years of correctional labor, 3 to 5 years of house arrest or 3 to 5 years in prison.
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