The Federal Prosecutor's Office of the Southern District of New York announced the initiation of criminal proceedings against the daughter of the late President of Uzbekistan Islam Karimov, 46-year-old Gulnara Karimova, and 44-year-old Bekhzod Akhmedov, the former CEO of Uzdunorbita, a subsidiary of the Russian telecommunications company MTS in Uzbekistan. Both are accused of criminal conspiracy...

On March 5, a court in Uzbekistan ruled to transfer to a general regime colony the daughter of the country's first president, Gulnara Karimova, who had previously been sentenced to five years of restriction of freedom. As Meduza writes with reference to the Prosecutor General's Office of Uzbekistan, Karimova was sent to a colony due to a malicious violation of order: in particular, she is charged with using communications and obstruction ...