BIOGRAPHIC INFORMATION ON ALISHER OZATOVICH

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SUBJECT: BIOGRAPHIC INFORMATION ON ALISHER OZATOVICH
SHARAFUTDINOV



1. (SBU) On March 28, 2008, President Karimov appointed
Alisher Ozatovich Sharafutdinov, who previously served as
Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs, as Deputy
Procurator-General of the Republic of Uzbekistan.
Sharafutdinov, an ethnic Uzbek, was born in 1958 in Tashkent.
In 1980, after graduation from the Tashkent State
University,s Law Department, he began his career as an
Investigator in the Office of the Procurator of
Sobir-Rakhimov District in Tashkent. He then served
successively as Investigator and Chief of the Investigation
Section in the Department of Internal Affairs of Tashkent
City; Senior Investigator for Very Important Cases, Chief of
Sub-Section and Deputy Chief of the Section for
Methodological Control in the Investigation Department of the
Ministry of Internal Affairs; Deputy Chief of the
Investigation Department in the city of Tashkent,s Main
Department of Internal Affairs; Deputy Chief of the
Department of Internal Affairs of Namangan Region; and Chief
of the Main Investigation Department in the Ministry of
Internal Affairs of Uzbekistan.


2. (SBU) Between 2005 and 2006, Sharafutdinov served as
Deputy Minister-Chief of the Service on Personnel in the
Ministry of Internal Affairs. From 2006 until March 28, 2008,
he served as Deputy Minister - Chief of the Main
Investigation Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs
of Uzbekistan. On March 28, 2008, President Karimov appointed
Alisher Ozatovich Sharafutdinov as Deputy Procurator-General
of Uzbekistan. Comment: Sharafutdinov was seen at the
Ministry of Internal Affairs as someone with reformist
instincts, who has the potential to develop more positive
relations, with human rights groups and others seeking
assistance, than his predecessors. It remains to be seen
whether he keeps this reputation in his new job.
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