The former official of the presidential state security service was sentenced to 23 years

Shukhrat Rasulov, the former head of the Presidential Security Service's own security department, was sentenced to 23 years in prison.

He was arrested as the main client of the assassination attempt on Komil Allamjonov.

According to the press service of the Supreme Court, Shohrukh Akhmedov and Ismail Jahongirov were also sentenced to 23 years in prison as the perpetrators of the assassination attempt.

^{Shohrukh Akhmedov and Ismoil Jahongirov}
In their video address, they admitted to being the executors in the assassination attempt on Komil Allamjonov.

Javlon Yunusov, who acted as an intermediary between the client and the executors, was given 18 years.

Doniyor Toshkhodjaev, the former first deputy head of the Tashkent city police department, was sentenced to 7 years in prison. He was suspected of attempting to conceal a crime and obstructing the investigation.

Five other defendants were sentenced to various terms of imprisonment, depending on their actions.

Shocking assassination

On October 26, at around 01:40, Komil Allamjonov and his driver were driving home in a Range Rover when two unknown assailants opened fire on Ifor Street in the Kibray district. No one was injured in the assassination attempt.

The Prosecutor General's Office issued an official statement the next day, announcing the arrest of two suspects. After that, no further details were released on the case.

Komil Allamjonov worked as the press secretary of the President of Uzbekistan and as a person responsible for information policy in the presidential administration. He was one of the high-ranking officials in the administration of Shavkat Mirziyoyev. Before the assassination attempt, Allamjonov had resigned and said that he would continue his work in the private sector.

The assassination attempt on him was unprecedented in modern Uzbek politics, and no official reports of an attempt to kill a current or former official have been made so far.

On October 27, it was announced that the first suspect had been detained. The Prosecutor General's Office announced in a statement on November 25 that seven people had been arrested, but only one of them was identified: Javlon Yunusov, who was extradited from South Korea. The statement said another suspect had been arrested in Kazakhstan.

In November, a number of senior officials in the State Security Service and the Ministry of Internal Affairs were dismissed, including the head of the State Security Service, Abdusalom Azizov, and the first deputy head of the Tashkent city police department, Doniyor Tashkhodjaev. According to sources, these dismissals were related to the ongoing investigation into the Allamjonov assassination attempt. Follow “Zamin” news on “Telegram”