Swiss investigating Uzbek president's daughter over money laundering


  • World
  • Wednesday, 12 Mar 2014

Gulnara Karimova (C), daughter of Uzbekistan's President Islam Karimov, takes a video with an Ipad as her father dances during an Independence Day celebration in Tashkent August 31, 2012. REUTERS/Shamil Zhumatov

ZURICH (Reuters) - Switzerland's public prosecutor said on Wednesday it was investigating Gulnara Karimova, the daughter of Uzbekistan's president, on suspicion of money laundering.

The prosecutor said it had widened an investigation originally centred on four people with business and personal ties to Karimova to include the daughter of Uzbek president Islam Karimov herself.

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