In Uzbekistan's Andijan province, a law enforcement officer was caught taking a $100,000 bribe.
Law enforcement officers of Uzbekistan arrested the deputy of laws of the Pakhtabad region and an employee of the district branch of the State Cadastre Bureau in the Andijan region. According to the State Security Service, they demanded $100,000 for winning an online auction of a 50 dunam plot of land at a discounted price.
The land was in the reserve of Hakimiyat district. Officials planned to register it for a citizen who planned to start a business.
The suspects were arrested while receiving 30 thousand dollars through a third party.
A criminal case was opened against the suspects under Sections "A" and "D" of Part 4 of Section 168 of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Uzbekistan ("Extremely large-scale fraud using an official position"). An investigation is underway.
Land in Andijan is a scarce and very liquid resource. The fact that corruption plans are being built for it with the cooperation of officials means that the land distribution has gone out of effective control. The State Security Service regularly reports on arrests, but the flow of cases does not dry up - from May to November 2026, at least four major cases of corrupt transactions with plots of land were located.