FILE PHOTO: Uzbekistan's Prime Minister and interim President Shavkat Mirziyoyev leaves a voting booth at a polling station during a presidential election in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, December 4, 2016. REUTERS/Anvar Ilyasov/Pool/File Photo
ALMATY (Reuters) - Uzbek President Shavkat Mirziyoyev has harshly criticised officials in charge of finance and banking, asserting his power above one of two other members of a triumvirate that has ruled since the death last year of leader Islam Karimov.
In a leaked audio recording of a meeting, posted online, a voice recognisable as Mirziyoyev's berates an official identified by news website Kun.uz as Deputy Central Bank Chairman Saidkamol Khodjaev and criticising Deputy Prime Minister Rustam Azimov.
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