ABSTRACT
This chapter presents an excerpt from the report of a commission created to investigate the Gdlyan-Ivanov group by the first openly elected parliament in the Soviet Union. As indicated, the Yuri Churbanov case was just one episode in the enormous cotton crime epic. A type was created, an incisively wise psychologically oriented investigator who, as it was often stated, “waged a tough battle against an experienced criminal.” In many instances the case brought before the court in volved a person who had committed a serious crime but against whom a case had been unprofessionally and incompletely made. Speeches by politicians concerning the struggle against organized crime are too numerous to count, and demands that new norms be written into the criminal law are found in every speech. Among the many cases in the “Uzbek epic,” the trial of Rano Abdullaeva, a former secretary of the Communist Party of Uzbekistan, held a special place.
