AKIPRESS.COM - New Prosecutor General of Tajikistan was appointed on January 24, 2015.

Yusuf Rakhmonov thus replaced Sherkhon Salimzoda by the suggestion of the President, Emomali Rahmon.

The Upper House of the Parliament endorsed the President's proposal to dismiss Salimzoda of his post during the extraordinary session on Saturday.

Yusuf Rakhmonov, 49, graduated from the Law Faculty of the Tajik National University in 1991. In 2012-2014, was served as Senior Adviser to the Department of Public Security of the Tajik Security Council. In December 2014, he was appointed First Deputy Chief of the President's Administration.