Uzbekistan

Published: March 21, 2015

Under President Islam Karimov, in power since 1989, Uzbekistan has boasted of steady economic growth based on exports like cotton, gas and gold. But the political system is highly authoritarian, and its human rights record widely decried.

There is no legal political opposition and the media is tightly controlled by the state. A UN report has described the use of torture as "systematic".

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In-Depth: Gulnara Karimova

In Bed With a Dictator’s Daughter — Again

Even as Swedish telecom TeliaSonera emphatically denied bribing Gulnara Karimova, the company was busy negotiating another secret multi-million-dollar payment to the daughter of the late Uzbek president.

16 September 2020 Read the article

The Prodigal Daughter‏

How The President’s Daughter Controlled The Telecom Industry

Gulnara Karimova, the elder daughter of Uzbek President Islam Karimov, has been accused of taking bribes for allowing Scandinavian and Russian telecom companies TeliaSonera and VimpelCom to operate in Uzbekistan. New records show that show she was far greedier and that the scale of corruption was far wider than has been reported.

22 March 2015 Read the article

A Love Story Turned Bad

She was a president's daughter, a virtual princess, who married a successful businessman and went to Harvard but she ended a twisted women who left behind stolen billions and broken lives.

21 March 2015 Read the article

Following Gulnara’s Money

The money Gulnara Karimova squeezed from telecom companies ended up in hedge funds, banks and opulent real estate‏.

21 March 2015 Read the article

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