Gulnara Karimova's $840 mln worth of assets arrested in Switzerland

  28 July 2017    Read: 1680
Gulnara Karimova's $840 mln worth of assets arrested in Switzerland
The Office of the Attorney General of Switzerland arrested nearly $840 million worth of assets of Gulnara Karimova, the daughter of the first president of Uzbekistan.
"Currently the Office of the Attorney General of Switzerland arrested more than 800 million Swiss francs (about 838 million US dollars at a current rate) worth of assets. Since the opening of criminal case the Office of the Attorney General has carried out legal aid procedures with 19 countries, including Sweden, the Netherlands and the USA" — the Office of the Attorney General said.

The criminal case on suspicion of money laundering as a result of corruption violations was opened in Switzerland in July, 2012 concerning six people, including Karimova.

Earlier on Friday Uzbek Prosecutor General's Office charged and arrested Karimova under several articles of the Criminal code.

"According to the investigation materials, the assets of an organized criminal group totaling $1.394 billion, 63.5 million euros, 27.1 million pounds and 18.5 million francs were preliminarily found in the territory of 12 foreign countries," Uzbek Prosecutor General's Office said.

Gulnara Karimova was born in 1972. In the 2013th Karimova appeared in the center of corruption scandal then she was concluded under house arrest.

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