Can Uzbek officials stop or suspend my business?

The starting position is non-interference: state bodies and their officials may not interfere in investment activity carried on in accordance with the law, and where they do find a breach they may take only those measures they are empowered to take and which are directly connected with removing that specific breach — they may not use the existence of a breach as a reason to reach into other, unrelated lawful activity. (Investment Law, Art. 15 — lex.uz ↗)

Where activity is genuinely to be restricted, suspended or terminated, the law names the grounds — the investor’s bankruptcy, emergencies, epidemics and other real threats to life and health, non-performance or gross breach of obligations under an investment contract including one with the Government, and circumstances threatening sanitary, radiation, ecological or planning requirements or the rights of others — and puts the decision in a court’s hands where it would suspend or terminate the business itself. The one exception is a suspension of not more than ten working days to prevent an emergency or epidemic. (Investment Law, Art. 60 — lex.uz ↗)