In the US, the court may arrest the $ 300 million due to corruption “VimpelCom” and MTS in the communication market of Uzbekistan – BBC

The New York court entered a lawsuit from the US Department of Justice to freeze $ 300 million in the investigation of corruption schemes in the telecommunications market of Uzbekistan with the participation of Russian companies “VimpelCom” and MTS, reports TASS .

It is reported that telekommunikatsionnnye company organized a network of front companies and fictitious concluded several contracts for the provision of consulting services, which are listed under the guise of a bribe relatives of Uzbek President Islam Karimov in exchange for access to the telecommunications market of the country, reports Bloomberg.

The total amount of such transfers totaled $ 300 million, which accumulated in the accounts of Bank of New York Mellon Corporation in Ireland, Luxembourg and Belgium.

Vimpelcom in March 2014 reported that the Dutch authorities a criminal investigation into the activities of the holding company Vimpelcom in Uzbekistan.

The investigation also leads the Commission on Securities and Exchange Commission and US Justice Department.

The reason was the data from the trial in Stockholm, in which contains information on the transfer of “VimpelCom” through virgin Water Trail Industries in 2007 and 2011, $ 55 million in the accounts of the company Takilant, affiliated with the Uzbek president’s daughter Gulnara Karimova.

The US Justice Department in 2014, also initiated its own investigation of JSC “Mobile Telesystems” (MTS) in Uzbekistan. MTS ceased operations in Uzbekistan in 2013, having lost the license. Defendants in the investigation was also the Swedish-Finnish TeliaSonera.