Law No. 1714 “On combating corruption.”

This Law defines the organizational and legal framework for combating corruption and is aimed at protecting human and civil rights and freedoms, the interests of the state and society, ensuring national security, the normal activities of state bodies and impartiality in the public service. Corruption shall be intended an act (action or inaction) committed by a person authorized to perform public functions, or persons equated thereto, using their position and opportunities, in their own interests or in the interests of another person for illegal receipt of material and non-material benefits, in their favor or in favor of others, as well as personally or indirectly provide material and non-material benefits, advantages or other benefits to the subjects of offenses related to corruption, in order to induce them or reward them for committing such actions in favor of natural persons or legal entities. Anti-corruption shall be intended activities of anti-corruption entities in the field of suppression, detection, disclosure, inquiry and investigation of offenses related to corruption, and bringing to justice the subjects of offenses related to corruption, elimination of the causes and conditions for the occurrence of corruption and the consequences of corruption offenses. This Law applies to the subjects of offenses related to corruption, unless otherwise provided in international legal acts recognized by Tajikistan. Anti-corruption activities shall be carried out on the basis of the following principles: (a) legality; (b) justice; (c) priority of human and civil rights and freedoms; (d) equality of all before the law; (e) transparency and publicity; (f) inevitability of responsibility for committing offenses related to corruption; (g) suppression and termination of the consequences of offenses related to corruption; (h) ensuring personal safety and legal guarantees of persons assisting in anti-corruption; and (i) cooperation of state bodies with civil society institutions. Subjects directly countering corruption are: (a) Agency for State Financial Control and Combating Corruption of the Republic of Tajikistan; (b) General Prosecutor's Office of the Republic of Tajikistan; (c) Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Republic of Tajikistan; (d) Ministry of Defense of the Republic of Tajikistan; (e) State Committee for National Security of the Republic of Tajikistan; (f) Agency for Drug Control under the President of the Republic of Tajikistan; (g) National Guard of the Republic of Tajikistan; (h) Customs Service under the Government of the Republic of Tajikistan; and (i) courts of the Republic of Tajikistan. Corruption prevention is one of the anti-corruption measures and is implemented in the following ways: (a) anti-corruption campaigning and propaganda; (b) anti-corruption training and education; (c) analysis of corruption risks; (d) anti-corruption monitoring; (e) anti-corruption expertise of regulatory legal acts and draft regulatory legal acts; (f) measures of state financial control; (g) special requirements for applicants for public office and persons authorized for the performance of state duties; (h) obstacles to appointment or election to public office and office equated thereto; and (i) introduction of restrictions in the performance of duties of public office and positions equated thereto.