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During preventative measures, officers from the I. Somoni District Department of Internal Affairs detained 68-year-old Khabiba Kholmurodova, a resident of Vahdat, while she was engaged in fortune telling and witchcraft, according to the Dushanbe Department of Internal Affairs.
According to law enforcement, the investigation revealed that Khabiba Kholmurodova had been making fortune-telling her source of income for a long time and, using various objects, was conducting so-called magical rituals.
In particular, at the time of her arrest, she was performing a fortune telling for citizen Nasiba Karimova, a 42-year-old resident of the city of Dushanbe.
Based on this incident, an administrative report was filed against Khabiba Kholmurodova under Article 482 of the Code of Administrative Offenses of the Republic of Tajikistan. The court imposed an administrative fine of 80 calculated units, or 6,000 somoni.
Nasiba Karimova was also charged under Article 482, Note 1 of the Code of Administrative Offenses of the Republic of Tajikistan for consulting a fortune teller. She was fined 50 times the minimum monthly wage.
Citizens are once again being advised to refrain from turning to fortune tellers and to assist the police in completely eradicating this negative phenomenon.
