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UZBEKISTAN - THE SECOND POCKET

By Dilnoza Sultonova · 4 parts · 12 h 0 min · English

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For a quarter of a century Uzbekistan paid for itself with money it never published: cotton picked by conscripted teachers and doctors, the gap between two exchange rates, and mobile licenses that three foreign telecoms admitted buying with bribes to the president's elder daughter. Then the president died. His successor freed the currency and ended the forced harvest; three prosecutors general in a row were convicted; reporters traced the new era's towers, gas fields and copper contracts to opaque companies. A cough syrup with a bought registration, a boxing president on a US sanctions list, a Swiss trial ended by the clock. Covers Gulnara Karimova and Takilant, Bekhzod Akhmedov and MTS, TeliaSonera and VimpelCom, Rashid Kadyrov and Ikhtiyor Abdullaev, Gafur Rakhimov, Salim Abduvaliev, and the Geneva bank Lombard Odier.

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  1. Part 01

    3:10:57

  2. Part 02

    2:47:04

  3. Part 03

    2:55:27

  4. Part 04

    3:06:49

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