Uzbek dissidents break into first daughter’s house
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Exiled Uzbek dissidents broke into the Geneva home of President Islam Karimov’s eldest daughter last month, publishing images of items allegedly taken from the Uzbek national museum, according to a report yesterday.
The members of a dissident group called Uzdem Fund Suisse entered the abandoned but not quite empty luxury home of Uzbekistan’s once all-powerful Gulnara Karimova on December 23, broadcasting images from within on Skype and tweeting about what they saw, Swiss weekly Le Matin de Dimanche reported.
Works of art, gold and silver trinkets, jewelry, and an 18th century jewel-encrusted Quran were among the items the group filmed in the villa overlooking Lake Geneva, which Gulnara bought in 2009 for 18 million Swiss francs (US$20 million)
Head of the group Sefer Bekcan, a 53-year-old Uzbek dissident who has been living in Switzerland for the past 15 years, compared the tour around the estate to “visiting a museum, without a ticket.”
According to the weekly, the group claims Uzbekistan’s fallen first daughter “confiscated” many of the items from the national museum in Tashkent.
Gulnara, who managed to combine politics with a career as a pop star, fashion designer and head of charitable funds and who was seen as a possible successor to her 75-year-old father, has suffered a spectacular fall from power recently.
But in October, her media empire was shut down by the authorities, and over a dozen boutiques selling Western clothes in Tashkent, believed to belong to her or her business partners, were closed on allegations of tax evasion and other charges.
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