{"id":105470,"date":"2026-04-28T17:00:20","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T17:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/2026\/04\/28\/swiss-court-dismisses-corruption-case-against-former-uzbek-presidents-jailed-daughter\/"},"modified":"2026-04-28T17:01:26","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T17:01:26","slug":"swiss-court-dismisses-corruption-case-against-former-uzbek-presidents-jailed-daughter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/2026\/04\/28\/swiss-court-dismisses-corruption-case-against-former-uzbek-presidents-jailed-daughter\/","title":{"rendered":"Swiss court dismisses corruption case against former Uzbek president&#8217;s jailed daughter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"prism-article-body\">\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \"><span class=\"oyrPY qlwaB AGxeB  \">Geneva&#8211; <\/span>A Swiss court on Tuesday dismissed a case against the daughter of Uzbekistan&#8217;s former president on charges including money laundering and bribery, noting that she is in jail at home and has not been allowed to participate in the proceedings.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">case against swiss <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/karimov-daughter-uzbekistan-switzerland-money-laundering-13bab394922b35fa9fa937161b5db843\">Gulnara Karimova<\/a>The daughter of former President Islam Karimov was released a day after her trial began in the southern city of Bellinzona. It was scheduled to run until 22 May.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The presiding judge said Uzbek authorities had indicated that Karimova, 53, would not be released until she has served her entire sentence in December 2028 after being convicted in Uzbekistan of charges including embezzlement. The judge said the charges in Switzerland would have expired under the statute of limitations. <\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Karimova was first convicted in Uzbekistan in 2015. She was initially ordered to serve her sentence at her daughter&#8217;s home, but a 2019 court ruling put her behind bars for violating her prison terms. <\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">She is now serving a 13-year sentence for organizing a criminal group, extortion and embezzlement. Uzbek news outlet Podrobno reported on Monday that Karimova has been held in a women&#8217;s penal colony on the outskirts of the capital Tashkent since early last year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">focused on the swiss case <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/general-news-6f8d27e069e14d8ba876b22bc3af2660\">Alleged bribery and money laundering<\/a> It involved hundreds of millions of dollars in assets and a crime gang called &#8220;The Office&#8221;, which included several dozen people and numerous companies. <\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The trial against Swiss private bank Lombard Odier and a former employee will continue over Swiss prosecutors&#8217; allegations that they had a &#8220;decisive role&#8221; in hiding the proceeds of crime gang activities. <\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">Lombard Odier has said that the charges against him \u2013 which he opposes and will defend \u2013 focus on &#8220;organisational deficiencies in preventive measures&#8221;, not allegations of involvement in money laundering.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Geneva&#8211; A Swiss court on Tuesday dismissed a case against the daughter of Uzbekistan&#8217;s former president on charges including money laundering and bribery, noting that she is in jail at home and has not been allowed to participate in the proceedings. case against swiss Gulnara KarimovaThe daughter of former President Islam Karimov was released a<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":105471,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[500,2043,700,1352,8635,3076,3930,3118,21334],"class_list":{"0":"post-105470","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bible-news","8":"tag-case","9":"tag-corruption","10":"tag-court","11":"tag-daughter","12":"tag-dismisses","13":"tag-jailed","14":"tag-presidents","15":"tag-swiss","16":"tag-uzbek"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105470","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105470"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105470\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":105472,"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105470\/revisions\/105472"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/105471"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}