Senile despot Islam Karimov of Uzbekistan has to worry about his successor. Daughter Gulnara has long been considered a candidate. But corruption allegations against them are loud – and now they accused of witchcraft sister Lola.
Almost a quarter of a century already prevails Islam Karimov in Uzbekistan. 1989 – because his country was still part of the Soviet Union – he rose in the Central Asian state to the First Secretary of the Communist Party. A year later, he was President of the Supreme Soviet, 1991, he declared his country to be independent of Moscow.
Uzbekistan is democratic but never become: Karimov can manipulate elections and brutally suppress opponents. In 2005, for example, his troops shot in Andijan in the east together a demonstration. At least 500 people reportedly died, no one knows the exact numbers.
According to UN findings is still “systematically tortured” in Karimov’s jails. Thousands of children are sent to forced labor on the huge cotton fields year after year. Cotton is the third most important export commodity of the country.
Brutality and exploitation are in contrast to the glamor with which surrounds the regime. This are mainly Karimov’s daughters. Gulnara, 41, fashion designer and occasional singer, is the older of the two world garment tere. Together with the actor Gérard Depardieu Gulnara has added a music clip, the tearjerker called “Excuse-moi”.
“Poet, mezzo-soprano, designer and exotic beauty,” said Gulnara presents itself on its own website. Less flattering is the characterization of American diplomats. As “robber-baroness,” the president’s daughter appeared on the U.S. embassy cables published by WikiLeaks.
Decreases Gulnara Karimovas Star
Gulnara Karimowa has represented her country as an ambassador , in Spain and in the United Nations in Geneva. Because she was able to gather diplomatic experience and do not decide elections in the country on political careers , but the favor of father Islam Karimov , Gulnara was soon regarded as a possible candidate to succeed him . Karimov senior is 75 years old and attacked his health. Again and again, media speculate about heart attacks the dictator so again this year .
But Gulnara Karimowas star falls , and a big part has worked out her own sister . Lola Karimowa – Tilljajewa , 35, had unlike her older sister far expressed rare, but has been attracting middle of this year publicly campaigned against Gulnara . The catfight she opened with an interview with the BBC. ” Twelve years since we no longer speak to each other ,” etched Lola. ” We are connected neither friendly nor family relations . ” Moreover, the chances are the hated sister on the presidency ” not very high ” .
Gulnara now fighting back on the internet. By her stage name ” Googoosha ” she warns via Instagram, Lola is addicted to black magic : ” The one part of the family ( the father ) is concerned , the other destroyed with the help of sorcerers .” Meant was Lola. At their behest , even the Islamic blessing was from an orphanage.
Corruption scandals scratching image of Karimov’s daughter
The West registered the power struggle in Uzbekistan with concern. Despite serious human rights violations in the country Karimov Europe and the U.S. have repeatedly courted: Through the land on the border of northern Afghanistan to the important supply route for the withdrawal of international troops north. The army maintains a transport base in Termez südusbekischen for the Afghanistan mission. In turn, Berlin has about 16 million euros a year rent to the government in Tashkent.
Corruption scandals have tarnished the image of the urbane Karimov’s daughter Gulnara in the West. While she organized charity events, they should have the same benefits of massively dodgy shops. This is the case, inter alia Zeromax. Billion dollar deals with gas, oil and cotton were therefore settled by the company based in the Swiss town train. Gulnara Karimowa denied having been in touch with Zeromax.
Zeromax went bankrupt in 2010 . Previously, the company had a congress hall but still built with thousands of square meters of marble and precious stone in Tashkent. Cost: estimated one billion dollars. Works were also 22 German SMEs , but wait until today to pay bills in the amount of 62 million euros . The magnificent building in Tashkent but has since been the scene of frequent Gulnaras of fashion shows.
In Moscow Gulnara is suspected to be behind the expulsion of the Russian mobile giant MTS from Uzbekistan . In a cloak-and- dagger operation to the Group , the Uzbek license had been revoked in the summer of 2012. Later reporter revealed that the Swedish TeliaSonera group should have paid $ 300 million to a woman in Gulnaras environment . Gulnara denies all allegations . Moreover, the Swiss federal prosecutor was at a private bank in Geneva to freeze the 600 million francs of an Uzbek subsidiary of Russia’s MTS for money laundering suspicions.
In July it was announced that in France , the Financial Police investigation launched against a company affiliated with Karimowa – it is the purchase of a 30 -million euro apartments in Paris and also the suspicion of money laundering.
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