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Swiss open money-laundering probe of Uzbek figure

By John Heilprin
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Swiss open money-laundering probe of Uzbek figure

GENEVA (AP) — Swiss authorities have opened a money laundering investigation into the eldest daughter of Uzbekistan’s authoritarian president, Islam Karimov, related to the country’s telecommunications market, Switzerland’s attorney general’s office said Wednesday.

The investigation into Gulnara Karimova also has triggered new leads abroad, particularly in Sweden and France, the prosecutors’ office in the Swiss capital Bern said in a statement.

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