SWITZERLAND: The daughter of former president of Uzbekistan Islam Karimov was facing a trial in absentia today in connection with alleged bribery and money laundering involving assets worth hundreds of millions of dollars.

Gulnara Karimova is behind bars in Uzbekistan as the trial opens in a Swiss federal criminal court in Bellinzona.

Prosecutors accuse Ms Karimova of depositing hundreds of millions of dollars’ worth of funds “of criminal origin” in Switzerland and abroad.

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