Uzbekistan’s road inspectorate found 5,815 violations at construction, reconstruction and repair sites in the first nine months of 2026, issuing more than 2,100 mandatory orders and forwarding 452 administrative cases to courts, even as fines for non-compliance were cut sharply under new legislation.
President Mirziyoyev has announced a $350 million reconstruction of 100 kilometres of the A-380 highway in Qashqadaryo, backed by a proposed ADB loan, alongside major water supply investments for the region.
The Accounts Chamber, the procurement agency and the Presidential Administration’s Compliance Service have agreed a joint programme — including automated bid evaluation, repeal of direct-contract loopholes and public contract disclosure — following a presidential directive issued in February 2026.
Deputy Construction Minister Kozim To’laganov told the Senate that nearly 80 billion soums in project funding has been frozen pending correction of defects, as a new national transparency platform extends mandatory digital oversight to every construction site in Uzbekistan from 1 January 2021.
Almalyk Mining Metallurgical Complex has defended over $200 million in tenders to foreign firms after a joint OCCRP and Finance Uncovered investigation found dormant companies, hidden common ownership, and disputed electronic signatures on contracts.
Six energy agreements worth US$4.7 billion were signed at an investor dialogue chaired by President Mirziyoyev, adding 3,000 MW of generation and 400 MW of storage capacity. A new Investors’ Council will be chaired by Presidential Administration head Saida Mirziyoyeva, while tenders for a further 2,200 MW of solar and wind capacity are imminent.
A protocol from an extraordinary general meeting of UzPost shareholders has confirmed that the national postal operator’s 92.9% state stake was transferred to a Wildberries subsidiary under trust management — a fact the head of the State Assets Management Agency publicly denied as recently as October 8.
President Shavkat Mirziyoyev has announced a National General Plan for the energy sector through 2050, shifting away from a model that let investors choose project locations and toward centrally planned, competitively tendered capacity with pre-defined grid connections — with the first tender covering 2.2 GW of solar and wind power due shortly.
Tashkent’s city council has approved a concept to buy 14 five-car trains for the metro, with seven international manufacturers assessed and only China’s CRRC and Russia’s Global Transport Solutions submitting commercial proposals.
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.
