Gulnara Karimova

Gulnora Islomovna Karimova is the elder daughter of Islam Karimov, the president of Uzbekistan. Karimova is the founder and chairperson of the Forum of Culture and Arts of Uzbekistan Foundations Board of Trustees and a number of NGOs focused on cultural and social aspects of life in Uzbekistan.

In 1991, Karimova married Mansur Maqsudi, an American businessman of Afghanistan Uzbek origin. They have two children, a son, Islam, born in 1992 and a daughter, Iman, born in 1998. When the marriage started to crumble in July 2001, Karimova took the two children and left the United States for Uzbekistan. An Uzbek judge granted her a divorce, while a US court granted one to Maqsudi. When Karimova refused to accede to the US court ruling awarding custody of the two children to Maqsudi, an international arrest warrant in her name was filed with Interpol. In return, Maqsudi faced arrest in Uzbekistan, and some of his relatives were arrested and thrown into prison. Others were driven to the UzbekAfghan border and dumped on the other side, and Maqsudi had his business assets in Uzbekistan, particularly his interest in a jointventure with CocaCola, taken away. According to The Guardian, as part of her divorce settlement, Karimova kept 4.5 million worth of jewellery and business interests wor

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