An entrepreneur from Tashkent, Olim Sulaimonov, addressed the interim president of Uzbekistan, receiving over 117,000 views in two days.

Olim Sulaimonov, 51, a resident of the Kibray district of Tashkent, has been an entrepreneur since 2012. During this time, he founded two companies: "Optima" for export and import, and "Durmon business kurilish" - for construction, which provided permanent work for 16 people.

On Monday, he posted an appeal to the interim acting president of Uzbekistan Shavkat Mirziyoyev,
on youtube, describing how he was raided by state services, in particular, from the Yunusabad department for combating tax, currency crimes and money laundering Prosecutor General's Office of Uzbekistan by Dilshod Hazratkulov.

According to Sulaimanov, Hazratkulov regularly comes to him and demands the transfer of significant sums of money to certain accounts, if he refuses, he is threatened with a tax and other audits.

Centre 1 published the full text of the appeal from the entrepreneur in Russian translation:

"Hello! Dear Shavkat Mirziyoyev!

Like you, I am a member of the Liberal Democratic Party of Uzbekistan.
Since 2012 I have been doing business. In order to form a statutory fund for my personal finances, I have added funds received from the sale of building materials and various products available at home, and obtained a license.

In 2014, as soon as I started working, early one morning when I was still sleeping, Dilshod (Khazratkulov) from the Yunusabad department came with two other people and, without showing any documents, began demanding the transfer of 48 million soums to some account.

If I did not do this, he promised to conduct searches of my two firms, to impose fines and not give me work. From April 30 to October, I'm really not allowed to work. I had to transfer 203 million to this account and sign some papers.

In addition to that, he said that his people work everywhere, in the Office of the Prosecutor General and in the office of the President, and demanded the transfer of another 48 million soums in a particular order or he would close my bank account illegally.

When I asked why I, a person that lives in the Durmen Kibray region, is being checked by the Yunusabad department, they answered that someone had given them a statement and it was on this basis that they were working.

I found the person who made the statement. He had received some produce from us with a volume of 48 million. I took a note from him, in which he wrote that he had no complaints and that all this was organized by Dilshod from the department.

I asked him why he went to the department, and did not approach the economic court or my company, especially since he has my phone number.

In response, he openly said that he approached the Yunusabad department because there is a person there who has his own people in the office of the president and with whom he cooperates.
Dilshod came to my house three times, insulted me in front of my children. Then he drove me to the department near the „Pilova Center", locked me in the office, where he kept me until late, until I signed the papers he needed.

He said that if I transfer 48 million soums, then no checks will be made, the account will not be closed, etc. He also visited the bank three times (Olim Sulaimanov is still working at a bank in Tashkent - Note Centre1).
When I said that I had met the maker of the statement, who had received the goods from me, and that I had an explanatory note from his hand, he became very outraged.

„Look at what a man you are! - he said. - I have the Prosecutor General's Office and the presidential apparatus. You won’t be allowed to work at all. " And he closed my two accounts.
If I had paid 5% – 250 to 300 million soums – for a wholesale license it would have replenished the district's budget, but now, due to the fact that I have been unable to act for six months, the budget has lost about 1.5 billion soums.

How so? Why is this young man, doing such things?

Where can we turn with our distress? Invite me on TV, arrange a personal meeting, I'm not afraid to prove that I am not the only one who has experienced this situation. It is not only I who has not been allowed to work.

I arranged a $ 1.5 million contract with Russia. But it’s execution has been suspended until the checks are over.

After all, if the money comes from Russia, and I cannot fulfill the terms of the agreement, this will give rise to mistrust not only for me, but for all Uzbeks and the whole of Uzbekistan.
Who wants to cooperate with us? But everything was done according to the law: businessmen came from Russia, they are ready to invest up to one million dollars. But here such things are happening.

Therefore, I would ask you to give a few businessmen an opportunity to speak on television, so they can shine a light on what is happening and how, by threatening us with fines and legal cases, such people are leading us into bankruptcy.

My phone is 93 535 7336. If you invite me, I will present all the evidence I have on hand. This has been going on for six months already. All at the same time. I was told that, wherever I turned, they would still get their own way, and I cannot prove anything.

I am forced to turn to you. I believe in you. You are a pupil of Islam Karimov, and are continuing on his course. Therefore, Shavkat Mirziyoyev, I and all like me believe in you and we hope that dishonest people working in these bodies will be sacked.

They cause direct damage to the state and budget and cause unemployment. 16 people who worked in the firms that belong to me, were left without work. Where are they to go and how …

For half a year they have not let me work, demanding the payment of this sum. Where can I go? I just have to lay out my appeal to you on the Internet. But I believe in you, dear Shavkat Mirziyoyev, take this into consideration and take control.

If you invite me, I will present you with all the witnesses and evidence that money is being demanding from us. The is no money and no work! I invested my money, I did not take any loans anywhere, I'm waiting for investors from abroad, I'm ready to attract one million dollars of investments to Uzbekistan.
I beg you to intervene. “
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