Corruption Prevention Reforms in the “New Uzbekistan”
2026-02-26 09:05:00 / News
The new Uzbekistan has been undergoing a period of wide-ranging changes in recent years. The country has implemented major reforms aimed at combating corruption, improving the business environment and working conditions, reforming the judicial system, protecting human rights, and increasing the efficiency of administrative and public administration.
At the heart of these reforms is a comprehensive anti-corruption program, enhanced by solid laws and strategic plans. The reforms are targeted at various areas, with particular attention paid to improving public administration, ensuring quality public services and access to information, and modernizing the judicial system. In recent years, Uzbekistan has made significant efforts to help its people feel confident that their state and private sector leaders are acting transparently and ethically.
As is known, international standards in this area are focused on the following elements in order to increase the effectiveness of measures to prevent and combat corruption:
including,
- introducing additional restrictions for civil servants;
- increasing transparency in the private sector;
- strengthening the role of financial control units in the fight against corruption;
- strengthening the liability of corporate and individual individuals for corruption-related offenses;
- supporting collective action initiatives.
In accordance with the above standards, in 2020, the Anti-Corruption Agency was established by Decree No. 6013 of President Shavkat Mirziyoyev, and its tasks included studying corruption, interacting with civil society, and increasing transparency. In recent years, the example of administrative reforms aimed at preventing corruption can be assessed on the basis of more than 70 conceptual regulatory documents adopted in this area. Today, openness and transparency are of great importance in ensuring the principles of public control, which are the most effective means of combating and preventing corruption. Licensing and permitting procedures have also been fundamentally improved, which has allowed to radically improve the business and investment climate, eliminate excessive bureaucratic obstacles and outdated regulatory documents. According to the Law "On Civil Service", which entered into force in 2022, civil servants are prohibited from accepting gifts, engaging in entrepreneurial activities, opening accounts in foreign banks and purchasing real estate abroad. A system of mandatory declaration of property and income of civil servants has also been introduced.
The above and other measures have served to improve the fight against corruption in our country, which has led to Uzbekistan's anti-corruption system being updated in recent years, and our country has improved its position in Transparency International's Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) by several places.
We can say that the path to creating effective financial, legal and institutional mechanisms for combating corruption in Uzbekistan has borne fruit. However, it should be noted that the fight against corruption is not a task of just a few years. This is a continuous process, and the government of Uzbekistan is successfully implementing anti-corruption reforms in accordance with international standards in this regard.
A.Kholboev
Chairman of the Pakhtachi District Criminal Court