Prosecutors reveal Gulnara Karimova, who has not been seen in public for three years, was convicted of embezzlement in 2015Gulnara Karimova, the daughter of the former Uzbek president Islam Karimov, has been detained by officials investigating allegations of fraud and money laundering, the Uzbekistan prosecutor’s office has said. Uzbek authorities have not revealed her whereabouts since her disappearance in 2014, even after Karimov’s death. Swiss prosecutors have investigated allegations of money laundering made against Karimova since 2014. She is also being investigated on charges of fraud, evading customs and foreign exchange regulations, and money laundering, and was in custody pending a trial, the Uzbek prosecutor’s office statement said. Karimov’s second daughter, Lola Karimova-Tillyaeva, is Uzbekistan’s ambassador to Unesco, a position she has held since 2008.

Source: The Guardian July 28, 2017 16:29 UTC