After the President of the National Karate Federation of Uzbekistan appealed to the Anti-Corruption Agency with complaints about the behavior of the former leaders of the Federation and corruption cases related to the activities of the Federation, which caused a wide discussion on social networks, the Agency conducted a study. The collected documents were submitted to the Prosecutor General’s Office for legal assessment.

Based on these documents, the Prosecutor General’s Office together with other bodies, conducted investigations, which revealed that officials of the National Karate Federation of Uzbekistan had embezzled a large sum of budget funds by falsifying official documents.

In particular, 49 athletes did not actually participate in 10 training camps held in the period between 2020 and 2021 and did not use hotel services, but by falsifying the necessary documents, officials plundered 403 million soums of budget funds.

Also, 64 types of medicines worth 78.5 million soums, which were not used by athletes, were also embezzled.

In addition, falsification of documents on the lease of a gym at a hotel that actually did not have a gym was revealed, to which 128 million soums were transferred, and subsequently plundered.

Also, the budget did not receive contributions in the amount of 150 million soums paid by participants in three sports competitions held in 2021.

In addition, an unjustified payment was made to citizen U.B in the amount of 6 thousand USD for allegedly training the world champion in karate D.O., and subsequently the budget funds were embezzled.

In connection with the above circumstances, a criminal case was initiated against officials of the National Karate Federation of Uzbekistan and other persons under the relevant articles of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Uzbekistan.

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The Anti-Corruption Agency