Between 2007 and 2010, TeliaSonera, a telecom giant owned in part by the Swedish and Finnish governments, paid at least $381 million and promised an additional $75 million to companies controlled by Gulnara Karimova, the daughter of the President of Uzbekistan.
In exchange, Coscom, TeliaSonera’s Uzbek subsidiary, got lucrative licenses needed to operate a mobile phone network from Uzbek regulators.