Author: Bekzod Karimov

A Saudi-led international consortium has signed a 35-year public-private partnership to build a new Tashkent airport by 2030, with a $2.5 billion first phase designed to replace a city-centre facility already approaching its capacity limit.

An OCCRP investigation has found that ten foreign companies — including two UK-registered firms that declared themselves dormant — won over $200 million in contracts from Uzbekistan’s state-owned Almalyk Mining and Metallurgical Complex, with evidence pointing to a single individual behind the network and forged signatures on key documents.

The Competition Promotion and Consumer Protection Committee has identified procurement violations worth nearly 2.5 billion soums across cases in Karakalpakstan, Samarkand, Tashkent Region and Tashkent City, initiating formal proceedings and referring officials to judicial authorities for administrative action.

The Competition Promotion and Consumer Protection Committee has identified procurement violations worth more than 8.1 billion soums across six Uzbek regions, initiating cases, imposing fines and cancelling at least one tender after finding rigged evaluations, affiliated bidders and competition-restricting documents.

Enforcement actions in Surkhandarya and Jizzakh regions have resolved competition-law violations in public tenders worth nearly 3.5 billion soums, with financial penalties imposed and administrative cases against responsible officials sent to the courts.