The daughter of Uzbekistan's former leader has been detained and sent to prison after violating the terms of her five-year house arrest, authorities said on Tuesday. Grégoire Mangeat, the lawyer for Karimova, said that the authorities had “forcibly removed” her from the flat on Tuesday and was taken to an unknown place. “The Uzbek authorities continue to exert psychological and physical pressure on her to force her to withdraw her appeals and abandon all her rights and property in Switzerland,” Mangeat said on Twitter. Yet she fell out with her father in 2014 after she was detained by security forces and the allegations of financial wrongdoing, the BBC reported. CLICK HERE FOR THE FOX NEWS APPUzbekistan’s authorities reportedly said Karimova was part of a group that was in charge of assets worth over $1 billion across the world.

Source: Fox News March 06, 2019 14:26 UTC