From: Justin Burke (JBurke@sorosny.org)
Date: Tue Oct 24 2000 - 10:24:21 EDT
TAJIK GOVERNMENT ADVISER SENTENCED FOR FORGING TREASURY
PROMISSORY NOTES
Tajikistan's Supreme Court has sentenced
Akbar Sotiboldiev, a former adviser to the chairman of the
Council of Ministers, to eight years' imprisonment for fraud,
Asia Plus-Blitz reported on 24 October. The court established
that in 1995 Sotiboldiev forged the signatures of the Tajik
Finance Minister and the chairman of the National Bank on
bills of exchange to the value of $15 billion and transferred
16 of those forged bills to a Turkish commercial bank. LF
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