A border guard officer has got a lengthy jail term for extortion and abuse of power. The Dushanbe military court sentenced Yoribek Saidov, the commander of platoon at military unit 2747 of Border Troops of the State Committee for National Security (SCNS), to nine years in prison on March 28. The sentence followed his conviction on charges of extortion (Article 250 of Tajikistan...
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