Uzbekistan’s Education Ministry has warned students against paying intermediaries for university places after arrests in Namangan, Tashkent, Bukhara and Khorezm exposed a pattern of fraud involving sums ranging from 18 million soums to $7,500.
Joint SSB, customs and police operation in Uychi district uncovers a basement stocked with 67,923 units of foreign pharmaceuticals worth 5.6 billion soums, allegedly hidden by two brothers for unlicensed sale.