Switzerland's public prosecutor said on Wednesday it was investigating Gulnara Karimova, the daughter of Uzbekistan's president, on suspicion of money laundering. The prosecutor said it had widened an investigation originally centred on four people with business and personal ties to Karimova to include the daughter of Uzbek president Islam Karimov herself. The Swiss authorities said that they began investigating possible money laundering in connection with funds held in Switzerland linked to what they called alleged irregularities in Uzbekistan's telecommunications market. The prosecutor said it had since blocked more than 800 million Swiss francs ($910.75 million). There was no immediate reaction from Karimova, who returned to Tashkent last year after serving as Uzbek ambassador to the United Nations in Geneva from December 2008. Her current whereabouts were unknown. She has in the past denied allegations of business impropriety against her. Karimova owns an estate on the shores
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