Tashkent, Uzbekistan (UzDaily.com) -- The Economic Crimes Department of the General Prosecutor’s Office of Uzbekistan received the right to obtain information, constituting banking secrets.

The corresponding amendment is made to the law “On bank secrecy”.

According to the amendments, in addition to the Chamber of Accounts, the Department for Combating Economic Crimes also has the right to receive information, which constitutes banking secrets, if they are necessary to carry out the assigned tasks.

Amendments were also made to the law “On Banks and Banking Activities”. At the request of the Economic Crimes Department, the Central Bank will provide the necessary information and data on operations related to the movement of state funds in bank accounts to study the targeted and rational use of funds from the budgets of the budget system of Uzbekistan.

At the same time, banks obliged to provide information to the specially authorized state body on transactions with monetary funds or other property related to counteracting not only the legalization of income derived from criminal activities and the financing of terrorism, but also the financing of the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction.