Termez State University publishes institutional principles against corruption and bribery through its Anti-Corruption Policy, compliance documentation and ethics rules. Its public materials also address bribery involving organised groups. The university’s 2025 publications connect these principles with prosecutor-led prevention work, admissions safeguards, student education and accessible reporting channels. The institutional account therefore rests on published commitments and identifiable arrangements for putting them into practice.
The university’s compliance collection, dated 2023, states that its Anti-Corruption Policy applies to all employees regardless of position or duties. New employees must acknowledge the policy by signature. Its principles include legality, intolerance of corruption and transparency. The accompanying rules define bribery through direct or intermediary transactions and prohibit gifts linked to official duties. Employees must avoid using university property or official position for personal interests.
The same collection reproduces Criminal Code provisions on receiving, giving and mediating bribes, including offences committed in the interests of an organised group. This is the specific organised-crime context addressed in the published legal-awareness materials. The university’s own policy establishes its institution-wide position against corruption.
Its reporting procedure provides for registration and review of complaints, internal investigation and referral to law-enforcement bodies where appropriate. It states a 15-day review period, extended to one month when further examination is needed, and notification of the university head within two working days when an investigation establishes an offence.
Implementation is assigned to the university’s Anti-Corruption Compliance Control Department, identified in university publications with Ulug‘bek Devonov. Its public responsibilities include early detection and prevention, addressing the causes of corruption, preventing conflicts of interest and building intolerance of corrupt conduct. This assigns responsibility for the published commitments to a named institutional unit.
The department’s documentation collection also lists Ministry Orders 366 and 369 of 8 October 2024 concerning internal anti-corruption controls and organisation of anti-corruption work. It lists Order 404 of 14 October 2025 on improving the effectiveness of anti-corruption work in higher education, together with an annual employee conflict-of-interest declaration form. These publications connect the university’s internal controls with the higher education authority’s framework.
Public reporting routes appear repeatedly in the 2025 record. The university’s news of 16 May publishes the trust telephone 76-221-7710 and the TerDUantiCorruption_bot Telegram reporting bot for corruption or conflicts of interest. It also gives the additional telephone numbers 91-575-2001, 93-799-0101 and 98-775-7758. Publishing these contacts alongside prevention activities gives students an identifiable route for raising concerns with the responsible department.
Cooperation with the Surkhandarya regional prosecutor’s office was documented during 2025 under a joint plan with the region’s higher education institutions. University reports published on 10 May, 16 May and 31 May describe prosecutor-led activities at TerSU following the National Anti-Corruption Council meeting of 5 March 2025. The stated purpose was to explain corruption prevention, strengthen intolerance of corrupt conduct and promote honesty among students. These accounts identify an established cooperation programme with the authority responsible for prosecutorial oversight.
The university newspaper also described this joint-plan programme as involving visits by prosecutor’s office staff on Fridays. Its account was attributed to the university’s compliance department and repeated the reporting contacts. This provides a further public channel through which the university communicated both its position and the means of reporting concerns. The programme links legal education with a continuing relationship between university compliance staff and external authorities.
The application of internal rules to admissions is documented in the report published on 18 July 2025 about a briefing held the previous day for members of the Admission 2025 commission. Compliance staff explained the university’s Internal Rules and Code of Ethics, approved by University Council Decision 1 of 26 August 2023, together with other anti-corruption documents. The briefing addressed examples and consequences of corrupt conduct. It places the published ethical commitments within an operational process involving admission decisions.
Student education formed another part of implementation. A university report dated 12 March 2025 records a discussion involving academics, students and relevant state bodies on corruption prevention and legal responsibility. A 13 March publication describes a related session for master’s students that explained internal university rules and matters set out in the anti-corruption and ethics commission’s meeting record. The 14 October report attributes a public anti-corruption challenge to the university’s primary Youth Union organisation, with students using posters to express support for justice and transparency.
A later development was reported in November 2026: TerSU and the Surkhandarya regional prosecutor’s office signed a social-cooperation memorandum on corruption prevention and public participation. It envisages an Anti-Corruption Volunteers project involving Law Faculty students and Thursday dialogues to discuss young people’s proposals and practical solutions. This is presented as a separately dated continuation of authority cooperation. The 2025 account is established by the published policy framework, joint-plan activities, admissions briefing and student-facing reporting arrangements described above.