DUSHANBE, March 18 - The Agency for State Financial Control and Fight against Corruption under the president of Tajikistan has appealed to the economic court of the country with a lawsuit to invalidate the deal on the purchase by the company belonging to Ukrainian businessman Dmytro Firtash of a 75% stake is CJSC Tajikazot.

"The agency considers the acquisition of 75% in Tajikazot to be illegal, and therefore we believe that these shares should be returned to the state," authority official representative Abdukarim Zaripov told reporters.