In Tashkent, judges who mitigated Akmal Shukurov’s sentence were removed from their posts, the press service of the High Judicial Council reports.
According to the information, the department dismissed Judges of the Tashkent City Criminal Court Turgunov Mukhtaram Makhamadaliyev, Ilkhomjonov Odilbek Ilkhomjon, and Abidov Mirziyoyev Mirjololitdinovich for violating the law in the administration of justice. In particular, the council made a decision based on paragraph 2 and paragraph 10 of part one of Article 79 of the Law of the Republic of Uzbekistan “On Courts”.
Recall that on October 24, Akmal Shukurov was found guilty of fraud — he promised a friend to deliver three minibuses for $215 thousand, but ended up bringing only two and embezzling $191 thousand. Two more charges, hooliganism and causing grievous bodily harm, relate to the high-profile incidents near the Tower Hotel, where Akmal Shukurov beat Boris Avakyan, who fell headfirst on the marble floor and fell into a coma for two weeks, requiring neurosurgical surgery.
After the incident, Akmal Shukurov fled through Kazakhstan, where he was detained by local law enforcement officers and extradited to his homeland for investigation. He was sentenced to 8 years and 1 month in a general regime colony. On December 9, the Tashkent appellate court held a hearing at the request of Akmal Shukurov, who remained dissatisfied with the verdict.
The second court found that partial admission of guilt, remorse, lack of material and moral claims by the victims, lack of prior convictions, as well as the victims’ demand to impose a non-custodial sentence on the defendant were mitigating circumstances and sentenced them to 3 years and 3 months of restricted freedom. Akmal Shukurov was released right in the courtroom after 46 days spent in a general regime colony. Following this, the prosecutor’s office filed a protest against the court’s decision.
