Norwegian Telenor suspected of bribery in Uzbekistan – Swedish YLE

Norwegian Telenor suspected of bribery in Uzbekistan – Swedish YLE

The Uzbek dictator’s daughter Gulnara Karimova . Picture: EPA / Sergei Ilnitsky

The Norwegian telecom giant Telenor suspected mutaffärer in Uzbekistan – that is, for a similar corruption scandal that Swedish-Finnish TeliaSonera earlier. It is the Norwegian newspaper The class struggle that comes with the revelation.

The newspaper publishes documents showing that Telenor, through a joint venture in Uzbekistan – Vimpelcom – will have paid bribes to enter the market in Uzbekistan. Also in this case, the daughter Uzbekistan diktatoriske President Karimov to be shot on the bribes.

In the TeliaSonera Hank must daughter Gulnara Karimova via intermediaries and company Takilant in Gibraltar have been over 200 million. Now these are under the Class Struggle of EUR 20 million through Takilant likely come presidential daughter to spare.

Telenor Communications Glenn Mandelid says the AFP news agency that Telenor is only a minority shareholder in Vimpelcom, so it is the responsibility that everything goes right. We have zero tolerance for corruption at Telenor says Mandelid.

When Telia Sonera began to be suspected of bribery in 2012 denied Telenor that it would deal with the same thing in Uzbekistan. TeliaSonera’s management – with CEO Lars Nyberg in the forefront – was later forced to resign due to the scandal.

Published 11/15/2014 – 22:02 . Updated 11/15/2014 – 22:51