Employees of the Agency for State Financial Control and Combating Corruption under the President of Tajikistan will celebrate their professional holiday in January.

The government has worked out a draft law on amendments to the country’s law on holiday and submitted it for consideration to the parliament’s lower house (Majlisi Namoyandagon).

The amendments, in particular, propose the establishment of a Day of Employees of the Anticorruption Agency on January 10.  It will be not a day-off holiday.

The anticorruption agency was created by president’s decree of January 10, 2007.  It performs functions previously carried out by the State Financial Control Committee, Main Tax Police Directorate, Directorate for Combating Corruption and other agencies.

The agency is placed under president’s direct supervision, and it has staff of 450.

Tajik President Emomali Rahmon on March 16, 2015 appointed his eldest son, Rustam Emomali, to head the Agency for Sate Financial Control and Combating Corruption.

Tajikistan ranked joint 136th out 165 countries in Transparency International’s latest Corruption Perceptions Index — the same as Nigeria and 17 position below Russia.

Tajikistan signed up to the United Nations Convention against Corruption in 2006 and an anticorruption strategy for 2013-2020 was adopted in 2012.