In Nukus, an employee who tried to extort 200,000 dollars from his former boss by blackmailing him was detained.
He stated that there was information that would damage the reputation of the society he previously worked for, and demanded money from the citizen in exchange for not disseminating it.
A person who demanded $200,000 from a former official through extortion in Nukus, Karakalpakstan, has been apprehended. The Ministry of Internal Affairs reported this.
According to the information, a foreign citizen born in 1980 filed a complaint with the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Karakalpakstan. The complaint stated that an individual named S, who worked as an operator at the Nukus branch of the society he leads from November of last year until February 2026, wrote to him online, threatening him by claiming to have information that would discredit the society.
This citizen named S, a resident of Nukus, exerted pressure with various statements, saying that if he did not pay $200,000, he would disseminate the information to the media.
This citizen had previously been convicted under relevant articles of the Criminal Code. During an operational-search operation, citizen S was caught red-handed by the participants of the operation while receiving $200,000 from the complainant at one of the hotels in Nukus, along with material evidence.
A criminal case has been initiated regarding this incident under Article 165 (extortion) of the Criminal Code.
