A criminal group that sold rental apartments using forged documents has been apprehended in Tashkent.

As part of the comprehensive preventive measures "Safe and Healthy Country" being carried out across Uzbekistan, a criminal group engaged in fraud was exposed in Tashkent city. The Ministry of Internal Affairs reported on this.

 

It is reported that based on prompt information received by the trust phone lines of the call center, a rapid operation was conducted by employees of the Rapid Search Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. As a result, it was established that a group of five individuals had been purchasing houses rented by them using forged documents to sell to other citizens.

 

According to the investigation, an individual born in 1992, despite having been previously convicted under Articles 168 (fraud), 169 (theft), and 228 (document forgery) of the Criminal Code, continued his criminal activities. He recruited four more individuals—born in 1980, 1997, 1994, and 2000—as his accomplices.

 

The group members had been renting houses belonging to citizens in Tashkent city, secretly forging documents from the homeowners, and engaging in selling them to other individuals.

 

During the rapid operation, they were caught red-handed with evidentiary materials while receiving $110,000 during the process of formalizing the sale documents at a notary office in Yakkasaroy district, after having reached an agreement to sell an apartment with a total area of 95 square meters located on Nukus Street in Mirabad district for $1,300 per square meter.

 

Regarding this case, a criminal case has been initiated against the suspects under Part 4 of Article 168 of the Criminal Code, and the preventive measure of detention has been applied against them.