All news on the topic: Uzbekistan

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Latvian mansion of former Uzbek Interpol chief to be converted into a kindergarten
The Ropazi District Council in Latvia plans to convert a luxury mansion confiscated in 2018 from the ex-chief of Interpol’s Uzbek chapter into a kindergarten.
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Money laundering and sanctions evasion: Oybek Tursunov and Alisher Usmanov’s Octobank laundromat
Octobank is an Uzbek bank which name has recently surfaced in a number of scandals related to the withdrawal of Russian capital from sanctions.
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Octobank and the President of Uzbekistan: How a family dynasty launders Russian money through online casinos and cryptocurrency exchanges
Although the owner of the Uzbek Octobank is formally listed as the bank’s chairman of the board, Iskandar Tursunov, who owns 99.16% of the shares, in fact, the beneficiaries of Octobank are the family of the country’s current president, Shavkat Mirziyoyev.
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Octobank could become a major international "laundromat"
The partners of the scandalous Uzbek bank are the Russian Transcapitalbank, Sber, the Uzbek exchange UzEx, the payment systems Humo and Paynet and the Chinese service Tenpay.
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Dmitriy Lee and Octobank: How the "overseer" of the President of Uzbekistan Mirziyoyev launders Russian money
As a number of Telegram channels recently reported, the Uzbek Octobank is used to withdraw and legalize money from Russia.
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The Russian trace of the Korean mafia Dmitriy Lee
Behind the head of the National Agency for Prospective Projects of the Republic of Uzbekistan (NAPP) Dmitriy Lee stands Russian businessman Alisher Usmanov.
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Postwoman dies after getting trapped in lift for days as no one heard her scream
Olga Leontyeva, 32, was discovered lifeless in a lift at a residential building in Uzbekistan - her family reported her missing after she failed to return home to her little girl