NEW: Using records from both the #SuisseSecrets and #PandoraPapers leak, OCCRP exposes the hidden ties between a top Uzbek official and one of the country’s wealthiest, most secretive oligarchs. 1/ occrp.org/en/suisse-secr…
Leaked banking data from inside Credit Suisse shows how Payzullajon Mirzaev, co-founder of industrial conglomerate Orient Group, had control over an account at the scandal-ridden Swiss lender that belonged to a previously unknown Uzbek woman, Rana Ramatova. 2/ 
Our reporting reveals that Ramatova, whose name has never emerged in public, is in fact the wife of Uzbekistan’s first deputy prime minister, Achilbay Ramatov. 3/
Between 2010 and 2015 — while the account was open, and while he was head of Uzbekistan’s railway company — Ramatov awarded multiple contracts to Mirzaev’s Orient Group. 4/
During the same period, documents from the #PandoraPapers show, Ramatov’s wife also controlled an offshore firm, investigated for money laundering before it was shut down, that made significant investments in Switzerland. 5/
The source of that money? Unnamed railway-related businesses in Uzbekistan.
“In that context, there is every reason for the public to say: Is this corruption?” says Uzbekistan specialist Kristian Lasslett. 6/
“In that context, there is every reason for the public to say: Is this corruption?” says Uzbekistan specialist Kristian Lasslett. 6/
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