The initiative to declare the property of judges and their family members was supported by the President of Uzbekistan, Shavkat Mirziyoyev. This was reported by the press service of the head of state.
This idea was voiced in the report by the Chairman of the Supreme Judicial Council (SJC), Kholmumin Yodgorov, who presented the president with information about the factors hindering the administration of justice and the state of the fight against corruption in the judicial system.
In his Address to the Parliament and the people in December last year, Mirziyoyev emphasized that corruption is a betrayal of reforms and announced emergency measures against this type of crime. In this regard, it was noted that courts, as an independent branch of power, should serve as an example in forming a "clean" environment.
In 2017, Uzbekistan began discussing the need for mandatory declarations for officials and employees receiving salaries from the state budget.
According to a project developed by the Ministry of Justice, civil servants, except for "junior specialists," will be required to submit an annual declaration of their property, as well as information about their income and expenses, including information about their relatives—parents, spouse, and children (including adopted children).
The necessity of declaring the income of civil servants was also emphasized in the presidential decree "On measures to further improve the system of combating corruption in the Republic of Uzbekistan," which was signed on May 27, 2019.
Previously, the Ministry of Employment and Labor Relations of Uzbekistan put forward for public discussion a draft presidential decree "On the declaration of property, income, and expenses of certain categories of civil servants and the phased implementation of the necessary technical infrastructure."
This document stated that starting from January 1, 2020, Uzbekistan plans to begin the phased introduction of a system for the annual declaration of property, income, and expenses for certain categories of civil servants and their families.
However, six years after this initiative, the system has still not been implemented, and information about the incomes of civil servants in Uzbekistan remains closed to the public.
