Law No. 35-V “On combating corruption.”

This Law defines the basic principles of combating corruption, legal and organizational basis for combating it, preventing it, elimination of the causes and conditions that contributed to the commission of offenses, related to corruption, and elimination of their consequences. Combating corruption is carried out with the aim of preventing, detecting, suppressing and disclosure of offenses related to corruption, elimination of its consequences and bringing the perpetrators to justice, and is aimed at protecting the rights and freedoms of citizens from risks arising from manifestations of corruption and ensuring the national security of Turkmenistan, effective activities of state bodies, as well as persons performing public service, and persons equated to them. This Law is aimed at ensuring reliable stability and security in society, expansion of democratic principles, transparency and control in the management of the state, to strengthen public confidence in to the state and its structures, stimulation of specialists with high competence for entering the civil service, strengthening guarantees of the integrity of civil servants. Anti-corruption in Turkmenistan is based on the following basic principles: (a) recognition and ensuring the rights and freedoms of citizens to protect against corruption; (b) priority of protecting the rights and legitimate interests of natural persons and legal entities; (c) equality of all before the law and court; (d) guarantees of the inviolability of persons assisting in the fight against corruption; (e) encouragement of persons not bound by official duties, who reported offenses related to corruption or contributing to countering corruption in a different way; (f) independence of state bodies performing control functions and their subordination only to the law; (g) ensuring publicity and openness of the work of state bodies, control over them by society and the state; (h) priority application of measures to prevent corruption; (i) inevitability of liability for offenses related to corruption; (j) complex use of political, legal, organizational, information and propaganda, socio-economic and other measures; (k) admissibility in accordance with the laws of Turkmenistan of restrictions on rights of civil servants, as well as the application of control measures to prevent legalization of funds or other property acquired by them in a way prohibited by law; (l) restoration of the rights and legal interests of individuals and legal entities, violated by offenses related to corruption, prevention, reduction and elimination of their harmful effects; (m) cooperation of state bodies, local self-government bodies with civil society structures, individuals and legal entities, as well as international organizations; (n) protection by the state of the rights and legitimate interests of state civil servants, salary fixing for civil servants and benefits for themselves and their ensuring decent standard of living; and (o) the right of a civil servant to appeal to a court in the event of disagreement with the prosecution on the grounds provided for in this Law.