A court in Switzerland abandoned a trial against Karimova on corruption charges, citing her continued house arrest and inability to take part in the trial
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Gulnara Karimova
Gulnara Islamovna Karimova is an Uzbek former businesswoman and the elder daughter of Islam Karimov, the president of Uzbekistan from 1991 to his death in 2016. She wielded considerable influence in Uzbekistan owing to her business dealings and family connections. From 2013, due to a conflict with her father, she rapidly began to lose influence.
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business · Uzbek diplomat and businesswoman (born 1972) · diplomat · politician · entrepreneur · singer · music arranger · translator · also Gulnara Karimova, Gulnara Islamovna Karimova, Qoshiq, Karimova
Born 8 July 1972 · Q541680
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2024· 1 entry
Department of Justice seized $850 million (~$1.09 billion in 2024) in 2016 that had been "funneled through corrupt deals" by Karimova.
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2018· 1 entry
The sentence was commuted to five years of house arrest
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2016· 2 entries
That had been "funneled through corrupt deals" by Karimova
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The United States Department of Justice alleged that Karimova had fraudulently received $800 million (~$1
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2015· 1 entry
An investigation by the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project reported that Karimova had taken over US$1 billion in bribes from Scandinavian and Russian telecom companies wanting involvement in the Uzbek marke
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2014· 1 entry
The BBC reported, based on a letter and a voice recording from Karimova (received in March and August 2014, respectively), that she was under house arrest
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2012· 1 entry
Karimova was honoured with the "Silk Road and Humanitarian Cooperation" Award of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization
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2009· 1 entry
The Swiss magazine Bilanz described her as one of the 10 richest women in the country
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2006· 2 entries
From Tashkent University of Informational Technologies
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Karimova released her first music video, singing a song called "Unutma Meni" (Don't Forget Me) under the stage name "Googoosha", apparently her father's nickname for her
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2005· 1 entry
Karimova established the Centre for Political Studies
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2003· 1 entry
When Sodiq Safoyev was the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Uzbekistan, rumours about his marriage to Karimova surfaced in local and international media
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2001· 1 entry
Was "awarded" a PhD in political science
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1998· 1 entry
And from 2000 to 2003, Karimova was counselor at Uzbekistan's Mission to the United Nations
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1992· 2 entries
Completed a course of jewellery design in New York's Fashion Institute of Technology
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And a daughter, Iman Karimova, born in 1998
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1991· 1 entry
Karimova married Mansur Maqsudi, an American businessman of Afghani-Uzbek origin
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1987· 1 entry
Interned at the State Committee of Uzbekistan on Statistics
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1972· 1 entry
Born 1972-07-08.
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