GENEVA: Gulnara Karimova -- the daughter of Uzbekistan´s former president -- and a Swiss private bank faced trial for money laundering in Switzerland on Monday.
But Karimova, whose father Islam Karimov ruled Uzbekistan for 25 years until his death in 2016, was not in court as she is serving a 13-year sentence in her home country for embezzlement.
“Ms Gulnara Karimova and another defendant did not appear today,” a spokeswoman for the Federal Criminal Court in the southern city of Bellinzona told AFP. The court was due to determine the next steps in the case on Tuesday.
