The prosecutor's office tried to hide his arrest from the media: on February 23, in a conversation with the “Ozodlik" reporter, the spokesman for the Prosecutor General's Office of Uzbekistan, Vohid Sharopov, said that "Kadirov is not arrested and no investigative actions are being taken against him".
The prosecutor's office attempted to conceal Kadirov's arrest from public knowledge: on February 23rd, a spokesperson for the Prosecutor General's Office of Uzbekistan, Vohid Sharopov, denied that Kadirov was arrested and that no investigations were being conducted against him.