A judge from Roudaki district has got a lengthy jail term for a large-scale bribery.

The Roudaki district court sentenced Iskandar Saidzoda, the judge at the same court, to eleven years in prison.  The sentence followed his conviction on charges of a large-scale bribery (Article 319 of Tajikistan’s Penal Code). 

Representatives of the anticorruption agency told reporters that Saidzoda had demanded 111,000 U.S. dollars from local resident for dropping criminal cases instituted against him.

The judge was reportedly caught red-handed in June while taking 50,000 U.S. dollars from the accused. 

According to data from the Agency for Financial State Control and Combating Corruption, two heads of department at the State Committee for National Security (SCNS) have been arrested over the first six months on suspicion of bribe taking and excess of powers.

The anticorruption agency representatives, however, have refused from giving further details of those cases.