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Former Uzbek Govt Official Gulnara Karimova & telecom exec Bekhzod Akhmedov charged in $1 billion bribery & money laundering scheme

Case involves VimpelCom (HT @KlasfeldReports) - majority owned by Alfa Bank's Mikhail Fridman, Mercer's Renaissance Tech also invested in VimpelCom
The massive $1 billion bribery scheme war organized "on behalf of MTS and two other telecommunications companies, VimpelCom Ltd. (“VimpelCom”) and Telia Company AB (“Telia”), and their Uzbek subsidiaries
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