Tashkent, Uzbekistan (UzDaily.com) - Social networks disseminated information that the news about a 2-room apartment gifted by the President of Uzbekistan to the world rapid chess champion, international grandmaster Nodirbek Abdusattorov turned out to be false.

According to the press service of the Ministry of Tourism and Sports, this message spread by bloggers is absolutely untrue!

Nodirbek Abdusattorov and his father Fazliddin Achilov, accompanied by representatives of the Ministry of Tourism and Sports and the head of the main department of the ministry in Tashkent, deputy khokim Fakhriddin Davrukov, visited a new apartment on Makhtumkuli Street in the capital.

The press service reminds that the legislation of the Republic of Uzbekistan envisages liability for the dissemination of false information.