Tashkent, Uzbekistan (UzDaily.com) -- Bodies of the prosecutor’s office, preliminary investigation, inquiries and those carrying out operational-search activities have the right to receive information about bank accounts from the Central Bank database.

The President signed the law “On Amendments and Additions to Certain Legislative Acts of the Republic of Uzbekistan”, which envisages amendments to the Law "On Bank Secrecy".

According to the amendments, the bodies carrying out operational-search activities gained access to information constituting bank secrecy.

In particular, the bodies of the prosecutor’s office, preliminary investigation, inquest and the bodies carrying out operational-search activities, on the criminal cases and cases of operational-search proceedings in their proceedings, can receive information about the presence of bank accounts from the information database of the Central Bank of the Republic of Uzbekistan in an automated mode.

The second part of Article 5 "Disclosure of bank secrecy" was also supplemented. According to the amendments, the exchange of information constituting bank secrecy between the prosecution, preliminary investigation, inquiry and the bodies carrying out operational-search activities, as well as the competent authorities of foreign states in the manner prescribed by the legislation and international treaties of the Republic of Uzbekistan, is not considered a disclosure of banking secrecy.