Uzbekistan: Russian Telecom Giant's Assets up for Grabs
Fancy entering Uzbekistan’s telecom market? Russian mobile giant MTS's assets are up for auction and can be yours for about $300 million.MTS, which was the largest mobile operator in Uzbekistan until...
View ArticleUzbekistan: Pressure Mounts in Europe’s Gulnara-Linked Corruption Probes
Pressure is mounting in Europe over graft probes linked to associates of Gulnara Karimova, daughter of Uzbekistan President Islam Karimov, as reports emerge that French and Latvian investigators are...
View ArticleUzbekistan: Nordic Telecom Distances Itself from First Daughter’s Fashion Event
Scandal-plagued Nordic telecom giant TeliaSonera has distanced itself from its local subsidiary in Uzbekistan, Ucell, after Ucell sponsored an event hosted by Gulnara Karimova, the controversial...
View ArticleUzbekistan: Four Fired from TeliaSonera amid Corruption Row
Four executives have been dismissed from Nordic telecoms giant TeliaSonera amid an ongoing corruption investigation in Sweden that has come uncomfortably close to Gulnara Karimova, the scandal-hit...
View ArticleGulnara Karimova Probed for Money Laundering in Switzerland
Switzerland's Office of the Attorney General (OAG) is investigating Gulnara Karimova, the scandal-embroiled eldest daughter of Uzbekistan's strongman president Islam Karimov, on suspicion of money...
View ArticleUzbekistan: TeliaSonera Targeted by US Corruption Probe
Hot on the news that Gulnara Karimova, daughter of Uzbekistan’s strongman president Islam Karimov, is a formal suspect in a Swiss money-laundering investigation, embattled Nordic telecommunications...
View ArticleUzbekistan’s First Daughter Reportedly Beaten in Detention; Europe Corruption...
After a spectacular, months-long campaign to discredit her mother, her sister, and Uzbekistan’s secret police boss, the elder daughter of Uzbek strongman Islam Karimov went silent in mid-February....
View ArticleKazakhstan Operations Under Scrutiny amid Fresh TeliaSonera Revelations
Nordic telecoms giant TeliaSonera is at the heart of several international corruption probes involving its activities in Uzbekistan. Now it says it may have broken the law in neighboring Kazakhstan and...
View ArticleIn Kazakhstan, What Did Embattled TeliaSonera Learn From Uzbekistan?
Following the admission by embattled Nordic telecoms giant TeliaSonera this week that its operations in Kazakhstan and four other countries had breached the company’s own ethical requirements and may...
View ArticleUzbekistan: Second Nordic Telecom Dogged by Gulnara-Linked Bribery Claims
Fresh allegations have emerged of bribery in Uzbekistan’s telecoms market involving another Nordic company and Gulnara Karimova, the daughter of President Islam Karimov. A cellphone company partly...
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