NEW YORK: The daughter of former Uzbekistan president Islam Karimov was charged Thursday (Mar 7) in New York in connection with a decade-long ...
NEW YORK: The daughter of former Uzbekistan president Islam Karimov was charged Thursday in New York in connection with a decade-long scheme to pay her more than US$865 million in bribes, prosecutors said.
Karimova, former Uzbek ambassador to the United Nations, is charged with one count of conspiracy to commit money laundering, along with Bekhzod Akhmedov, 44, former general director of Uzdunrobita, an Uzbek subsidiary of MTS. Karimova, once a high-profile diplomat and pop singer, was being held under house arrest in her homeland after being convicted on fraud and money laundering charges in 2017 and sentenced to five years.
US prosecutors say their investigation has so far yielded more than US$2.6 billion in fines and penalties globally.
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