Ex-Uzbek Leader’s Daughter Charged in $865 Million Bribery Scheme
- Gulnara Karimova the focus of $865 million corruption case
- It’s one of biggest Foreign Corrupt Practices cases, U.S. says
Gulnara Karimova
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The daughter of Uzbekistan’s former president and a former official of a Russian telecommunications company were indicted in what prosecutors called one of the largest bribery schemes ever prosecuted under the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act.
Federal prosecutors in New York announced criminal charges against Gulnara Karimova, 46, and Bekhzod Akhmedov, 44, alleging a decade-long operation in which $865 million in bribes were paid to Karimova, who is a former Uzbek official and the daughter of Islam Karimov, leader of Uzbekistan from 1989 until his death in 2016.