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In the first half of 2025, the Ministry of Finance of Tajikistan issued 261 licenses for artisanal and free-lance placer mining. This was announced by Finance Minister Faiziddin Kakhhorzoda at a press conference in Dushanbe.
According to him, of the total number of licenses issued, 11 were in the Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Region, 104 in the Khatlon Region, 10 in the Sughd Region, 39 in Dushanbe, and 97 in cities and districts of republican subordination.
Kakhhorzoda noted that during the same period, the Ministry of Finance issued 35 licenses for bookmaking, games of chance, and electronic lotteries totaling 555,900 somoni.
The Minister emphasized that licensing of these types of activities is carried out in accordance with the current legislation of the republic and is aimed at regulating and controlling the use of natural resources, as well as organizing legal gambling businesses.
