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At the end of January, an interview with Iskandar Tursunov, Chairman of the Board of Octobank, appeared on several platforms.

The businessman Ovik Mkrtchyan, together with his relatives, has created an entire empire for siphoning money out of Uzbekistan and Russia.

Journalists investigating Oktobank’s criminal activities, allegedly serving as the "wallet" for Uzbekistan President Shavkat Mirziyoyev’s family, have received threats from the email account of the Uzbek company INNOVA HOLDING.

At the end of September, two significant developments related to Oktobank are poised to have major implications.

A new investigation has uncovered the chains of money withdrawal through Uzbek and Russian partners of Octobank.

Octobank is an Uzbek bank which name has recently surfaced in a number of scandals related to the withdrawal of Russian capital from sanctions.

Although the owner of the Uzbek Octobank is formally listed as the bank’s chairman of the board, Iskandar Tursunov, who owns 99.16% of the shares, in fact, the beneficiaries of Octobank are the family of the country’s current president, Shavkat Mirziyoyev.

As a number of Telegram channels recently reported, the Uzbek Octobank is used to withdraw and legalize money from Russia.

Behind the head of the National Agency for Prospective Projects of the Republic of Uzbekistan (NAPP) Dmitriy Lee stands Russian businessman Alisher Usmanov.

A Russian authority initially blamed Ukraine for the Moscow attack despite ISIS claiming responsibility and US intelligence confirming this - as Putin seeks a "war with the West"

Geoff Hill delves into Samarkand’s beautiful history and rebirth amid huge investment from local tycoon Bakhtiyor Fazilov, who’s made billions from gas, oil and property