Uzbekistan: Prosecutors Question First Daughter's Associates
Prosecutors in Uzbekistan say that they have summoned for questioning associates of the president's controversial daughter, businesswoman and aspiring pop star Gulnara Karimova. It is unclear if the...
View ArticleGulnara Karimova Probed for Money Laundering in Switzerland
Switzerland's Office of the Attorney General (OAG) is investigating Gulnara Karimova, the scandal-embroiled eldest daughter of Uzbekistan's strongman president Islam Karimov, on suspicion of money...
View ArticleUzbekistan: TeliaSonera Targeted by US Corruption Probe
Hot on the news that Gulnara Karimova, daughter of Uzbekistan’s strongman president Islam Karimov, is a formal suspect in a Swiss money-laundering investigation, embattled Nordic telecommunications...
View ArticleUzbekistan’s First Daughter Reportedly Beaten in Detention; Europe Corruption...
After a spectacular, months-long campaign to discredit her mother, her sister, and Uzbekistan’s secret police boss, the elder daughter of Uzbek strongman Islam Karimov went silent in mid-February....
View ArticleKazakhstan Operations Under Scrutiny amid Fresh TeliaSonera Revelations
Nordic telecoms giant TeliaSonera is at the heart of several international corruption probes involving its activities in Uzbekistan. Now it says it may have broken the law in neighboring Kazakhstan and...
View ArticleUzbekistan: Dismantling Gulnara’s Business Empire
Four months after the precipitous downfall of Gulnara Karimova, the eldest daughter of Uzbekistan’s strongman leader Islam Karimov, the most visible arms of her former business empire still stand...
View ArticleUzbekistan: Karimova Spokesman Denies Corruption Charges; Associates...
Amid reports that two close associates of Gulnara Karimova, the embattled daughter of Uzbekistan’s strongman president Islam Karimov, have been jailed, a man claiming to represent her family has denied...
View ArticleIn Post-Gulnara Uzbekistan, Another Russian Firm Targeted for Assets Grab
A cement company owned by Russian oligarch Filaret Galchev appears to have become the latest target of an assets grab by Uzbekistan’s government, sparking speculation that this is part of a re-division...
View ArticleUzbekistan: Prosecutors Deny Holding Gulnara’s Daughter Captive
President Islam Karimov’s 16-year-old granddaughter is not being held against her will in Uzbekistan, prosecutors have announced, and she is free to leave the residence where her mother, Gulnara...
View ArticleUzbekistan: Second Nordic Telecom Dogged by Gulnara-Linked Bribery Claims
Fresh allegations have emerged of bribery in Uzbekistan’s telecoms market involving another Nordic company and Gulnara Karimova, the daughter of President Islam Karimov. A cellphone company partly...
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