The Dictator’s Daughter and the €300m Irish asset chase

Ian Kehoe reveals the inside story of Gulnara Karimova, the controversial daughter of the late Central Asian dictator Islam Karimov, and her $300 million Irish money trail

Gulnara Karimova, daughter of the late Islam Karimov, has been imprisoned since 2015

For the past three years, prosecutors in the impoverished Central Asian state of Uzbekistan have been attempting to piece together the Byzantine financial money trail of Gulnara Karimova, the daughter of the late Uzbek dictator Islam Karimov. The prosecutor general’s office has traversed 12 countries for the investigation, probing 16 offshore companies as well as a further 14 entities purportedly controlled by an organised criminal gang.

The investigation has moved from apartments in ...