Officials at a commercial bank in Tashkent have been found to have embezzled $300,000 from a customer's deposit, a department under the Prosecutor General's Office said.
A pre-investigation inquiry by the department's Sergeli district division found that responsible officials at the bank had drawn up forged applications and other documents in the name of a customer identified as I.M. They allegedly used them to misappropriate $300,000 of the customer's $500,000 deposit.
A criminal case has been opened under Article 167 of the Criminal Code (Theft by misappropriation or embezzlement) and Article 228 (Forging, selling or using documents, stamps, seals or forms), and investigators are carrying out procedural actions.
