RESOLUTION OF THE PRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF UZBEKISTAN

of April 30, 2025 No. PP-153

About the measures directed to further strengthening of activities for fight against the crimes committed by means of information technologies

For the purpose of effective fulfillment of the tasks determined at the enlarged meeting of National council on anti-corruption held on March 5, 2025 and also further strengthening of activities for fight against the crimes committed by means of information technologies (further - cybercrimes), I decide:

I. Priority tasks

1. Determine the Ministry of Internal Affairs authorized body by implementation of single working practice in the field of fight against cybercrimes in the Republic of Uzbekistan, coordination of activities and the organization of address interaction of all responsible state bodies and organizations in this direction.

2. Assign to each authorized state body, and also to the organizations, banks, operators of payment systems and payment institutes strict liability for acceptance of all necessary measures directed to the prevention of cybercrimes and increase in cyberculture of the population.

3. Under the organization of the daily activities to banks, operators of payment systems and payment institutes to determine ensuring interests and financial safety of clients as priority task.

II. Enhancement of normative legal mechanisms

4. To the Ministry of Internal Affairs (Tashpulatov) together with the interested ministries and departments till the end of 2025 by complex studying of the current practice, modern requirements and the best foreign practices to develop and introduce to the Cabinet of Ministers the bill "About Fight against the Crimes Committed with Use of Information Technologies" determining the priority directions and mechanisms of functioning of the sphere, and also specific responsibility of state bodies, banks, operators of payment systems and payment institutes for the prevention and disclosure of cybercrimes.

5. Approve the offers of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, Service of state security, the Prosecutor General's Office and the Central bank providing:

(a) establishment of administrative and criminal liability for persons (dropper) who allowed use of the bank card which is drawn up on them, the bank account, the SIM card, e-wallet (electronic accounts) when making cybercrime;

(b) enhancement of the existing rules establishing responsibility for non-compliance with requirements of information security and cyber security regarding approach of responsibility in the absence of effects;

(c) implementation of procedure for collection at the expense of banks, operators of payment systems, payment and other institutes of the material damage caused owing to the cybercrime made as a result of non-compliance by them with requirements of information security and cyber security;

(d) strengthening of the punishment measures established by the penal legislation for crimes in the field of information technologies, and also illegal activities for attraction of money or other property;

(e) determination of use of information technologies in case of crime execution as the circumstance aggravating responsibility and punishment;

(e) implementation of the procedure providing determination of specific terms of ensuring execution of requests and decisions of the law enforcement agencies carried to bank secrecy and also simplification of mechanisms and requirements to their execution.

6. To the Ministry of Internal Affairs (Tashpulatov), Service of state security (Kurbanov), the Prosecutor General's Office (Yuldoshev) and to the Central bank (Ishmetov) in two-month time to develop and introduce in accordance with the established procedure to the Cabinet of Ministers the bill providing implementation of the offers approved by this resolution.

III. Mechanisms according to the prevention of cybercrimes

7. Establish procedure according to which:

(a) The Ministry of Internal Affairs for the purpose of strengthening of responsibility of banks and payment institutes for observance of information security policy and requirements of cyber security practice of promulgation following the results of every month of the list of banks and payment institutes in which systems the greatest number of cybercrimes is fixed takes root (as a result of vulnerability and shortcomings);

(b) The Central bank the system of identification of signs of fraudulent schemes ("financial pyramid") or the cases causing suspicion, population money allocated for attraction, by conducting monitoring of implementation of transactions by physical persons and legal entities, and also the operational notification of law enforcement agencies about them takes root;

(c) The Cabinet of Ministers the comprehensive propaganda and explanatory program directed to increase in cyberculture and forming of cyberhygiene of the population annually affirms and also strict control of its execution is established.

8. During the propaganda and explanatory actions for the prevention of cybercrimes to pay special attention:

(a) to annual carrying out in November of "Month of increase in cyberculture" on the scale of the republic;

(b) to new types of cybercrimes and methods of their making;

(c) to use on free basis of services of target (targeted) advertizing on the Internet and social networks for the notification about types of cybercrimes and methods of their making.

9. To Central Bank (Ishmetov) till September 1, 2025 to realize the following urgent measures on:

(a) to implementation of integration of transactions and other necessary these banks, operators of payment systems, payment institutes and credit bureaus with the Single platform of the Central bank;

(b) to completion of implementation of centralized antifrod-system in the Central bank and antifrod-systems (session, transactional and telecommunication) banks, operators of payment systems and payment institutes;

(c) to project development of specifications of platforms and special systems of protection in coordination with SUE Center of Cyber Security, the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the Center of development of electronic technologies.

10. To the ministry of digital technologies (Shermatov) together with the interested departments and organizations till the end of 2025 to complete measures for implementation in full of system of restriction of false calls.

11. To Central Bank (Ishmetov) till the end of 2025:

(a) to develop and implement in practice relevant requirements to opening by minors of bank accounts and bank cards;

(b) to implement practice of the notification by banks of parents about suspicious (frod) the transactions connected with their minor children;

(c) to provide maintaining the register of persons (dropper) to whom citizens provided data of the bank card, the bank account and e-wallet for making of cybercrimes;

(d) to take measures for installation by banks and payment institutes of systems of anti-virus protection on the mobile applications and to implementation of practice of the notification of users in case of identification of availability of signs of malicious applications in their devices.

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