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Over 4 million units were poured with water and buried. Photos.</h4> </div> <div class="mar-10"></div> <div class="articleDateTime"> <span style="float: right;">   <a href="/ru/2024/11/22/pirotexnika--duplicate-2024-11-22-20-39-53/">На русском языке</a>   <a href="/uz/2024/11/22/pirotexnika/">Ўзбек тилида</a>   <a href="/oz/2024/11/22/pirotexnika/">O‘zbek tilida</a> </span> Yesterday, 12:56   <span itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/BreadcrumbList"> <span itemprop="itemListElement" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/ListItem"> <a href="/en/society/"><span itemprop="name">Society</span></a>   <meta itemprop="position" content="1" /> </span> </span> <div class="clear"></div> </div> </div> <div class="articleContent type-news"> <div itemprop="articleBody" class="js-mediator-article article-text" id="redactor" data-id="160504"> <p>Customs Committee of Uzbekistan held its first large-scale event in Tashkent on Friday to destroy fireworks seized during anti-smuggling operations. The event took place at the fire-rescue station of Emergency Situations Department in Yashnabad district, where more than 4 million units of fireworks were destroyed, the committee press service <a href="https://t.me/customschannel/40769" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">said</a>.</p><p><img itemprop="image" class="fr-dib fr-fil lazy" alt="customs, pyrotechnics" data-lightbox-hide-title="1" data-thumb="/media/img/2024/11/oRKMeb17323488703406_s.jpg" data-url="/media/img/2024/11/oRKMeb17323488703406_b.jpg" data-title="1732348766777.jpg" data-id="190452" data-src="/media/img/2024/11/oRKMeb17323488703406_b.jpg"></p><p>During the event, organized jointly with the Ministry of Emergency Situations, National Guard and the Ministry of Internal Affairs, millions of firecrackers and fireworks were poured with water from fire hoses, crushed by an excavator bucket and buried in a specially dug pit.</p><p><img itemprop="image" class="fr-dib fr-fil lazy" alt="customs, pyrotechnics" data-lightbox-hide-title="1" data-thumb="/media/img/2024/11/9WyK7a17323488632149_s.jpg" data-url="/media/img/2024/11/9WyK7a17323488632149_b.jpg" data-title="1732348759637.jpg" data-id="190451" data-src="/media/img/2024/11/9WyK7a17323488632149_b.jpg"></p><p>The head of the Customs Committee’s investigation and administrative practices department Akramjon Akhlimirzayev said that nearly 88% of the destroyed fireworks — about 3.537 million units — were seized directly by customs authorities over the past year.</p><p><img itemprop="image" class="fr-dib fr-fil lazy" alt="customs, pyrotechnics" data-lightbox-hide-title="1" data-thumb="/media/img/2024/11/HW3sSC17323488555367_s.jpg" data-url="/media/img/2024/11/HW3sSC17323488555367_b.jpg" data-title="1732348751889.jpg" data-id="190450" data-src="/media/img/2024/11/HW3sSC17323488555367_b.jpg"></p><p>In one case, on 15 December 2023, more than 162,000 fireworks and firecrackers of 12 types were found in a house under surveillance in Sergeli district of Tashkent. The owner of the goods, previously convicted for offenses related to the illegal sale of fireworks, was sentenced to five years and three months in prison. The confiscated goods were among those destroyed during the event.</p><p><img itemprop="image" class="fr-dib fr-fil lazy" alt="customs, pyrotechnics" data-lightbox-hide-title="1" data-thumb="/media/img/2024/11/g5FQBD17323488471918_s.jpg" data-url="/media/img/2024/11/g5FQBD17323488471918_b.jpg" data-title="1732348743513.jpg" data-id="190449" data-src="/media/img/2024/11/g5FQBD17323488471918_b.jpg"></p><p>According to statistics, over 7.39 million units of fireworks valued at nearly 1 billion soums ($77,970) were seized during 77 incidents in 2024. The amount of seized fireworks this year increased by 7.2 times compared to the same period last year.</p><p><img itemprop="image" class="fr-dib fr-fil lazy" alt="customs, pyrotechnics" data-lightbox-hide-title="1" data-thumb="/media/img/2024/11/cxFjio17323488264108_s.jpg" data-url="/media/img/2024/11/cxFjio17323488264108_b.jpg" data-title="1732348722151.jpg" data-id="190447" data-src="/media/img/2024/11/cxFjio17323488264108_b.jpg"></p><p>In late 2009, the government introduced a temporary ban on the import, production, transportation, storage, sale and use of pyrotechnic devices in Uzbekistan.<div class="inpage-ad" id="adfox_168963148958184883_container"><div id="adfox_168963148958184883"></div> <script> window.yaContextCb.push(()=>{ Ya.adfoxCode.createScroll({ ownerId: 324267, containerId: 'adfox_168963148958184883', params: { p1: 'cyqku', p2: 'ilqh', slide: true, visibleAfterInit: false, insertAfter: 'undefined', insertPosition: '0', stick: false, stickTo: 'auto', stickyColorScheme: 'light', replayMode: 'manual' } }) }); var top_inpageAdTime = 0; var top_inpageAdPeriod = 250; function top_toggleInpageAd() { if (top_inpageAdTime >= 120000) { return; } setTimeout(function() { var top_inpageAd = document.getElementById('adfox_168963148958184883'); var top_inpageAdContainer = document.getElementById('adfox_168963148958184883_container'); if (!top_inpageAd || !top_inpageAd.innerHTML) { if (top_inpageAdContainer.classList.contains('active')) { top_inpageAdContainer.classList.remove('active'); } else { top_toggleInpageAd(); } } else { if (!top_inpageAdContainer.classList.contains('active')) { top_inpageAdContainer.classList.add('active'); } top_toggleInpageAd(); } }, top_inpageAdPeriod); top_inpageAdTime += top_inpageAdPeriod; } top_toggleInpageAd(); </script> <div class="inpage-ad-footer"><a href="/reklama">Advertising on Gazeta.uz</a></div></div></p><p>Subsequently, a law enacted on 22 September, 2010, established administrative and criminal liability for the illegal production, storage, transportation, use or trade of pyrotechnics, as well as their unauthorized import or export.</p><p>Despite these measures, large quantities of fireworks continue to be confiscated, and residents frequently use pyrotechnic products during and after the New Year celebrations.</p> <div id="extra"></div> </div> <a href="https://telegram.me/gazetauznews" class="smm-subscription-telegram" target="_blank"> <img src="/i/gazeta_logo_white.svg" alt="Газета.uz" /> <span>Subscribe to our Telegram channel</span> </a> </div> <div class="articleInfo"> <span itemprop="author">Gazeta.uz</span>     <i class="far fa-eye" aria-hidden="true"></i> 213 <div class="articleTags"> <ul> <li><a href="/en/tag/customs/">#<span itemprop="about">customs</span></a></li> <li><a href="/en/tag/pyrotechnics/">#<span itemprop="about">pyrotechnics</span></a></li> </ul> </div> </div> <div style="margin: 22px 0 18px"> </div> <div class="share articleSocial" data-type="desktop" data-twitter-via="gazeta_uz"></div> </div> <br> <h3 class="block-title">Comments</h3> <div class="contentBox"> <div id="comments"> <div class="clear"></div> <div id="form__message" class="form-message"></div> <form action="/en/comments/submit/" id="comment-form" class="disabled" method="post" style="border:none"> <input type="hidden" name="material_id" value="160504"/> <input type="hidden" name="parent_id" id="comment-parent-id" value=""/> <div class="comment-sent-box"> <textarea name="txt" id="message" disabled="disabled" maxlength="6000" data-auth-msg="You are not logged in. 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