Uzbekistan: Biographic Information on New Samarkand Police

UNCLAS TASHKENT 000885 SENSITIVE SIPDIS DEPARTMENT FOR SCA/CEN E.O. 12958: N/A TAGS: PGOV PINR UZ SUBJECT: Uzbekistan: Biographic Information on New Samarkand Police Chief REF: STATE ¶1. (SBU) In May 2008, Minister of Internal Affairs Bohodir Matlyubov appointed Colonel Hudayberdi Faizievich Pardaev as Chief of Samarkand City's Department of Internal Affairs. Pardaev, an ethnic Uzbek, was born in 1962. In 1984, after graduation from the Samarkand State University, he began his career as an Investigator in the Investigations Unit of the Siab District's Section of Internal Affairs in Samarkand Province. ¶2. (SBU) From 1990 until 2001, he served in succession as Investigator, Deputy Section Chief, and Chief of the Investigations Unit of the Investigations Section in Samarkand City's Department of Internal Affairs; then as Chief of the Information Center and Deputy Chief of the Investigations Department in Samarkand Province's Department of Internal Affairs. From 2001 until 2009, he served as Deputy Chief of the Department for Criminal Investigations and Counterterrorism of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. NORLAND