Description: (Uzbekistan’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations in Geneva)
Gulnara Karimova wielded significant influence in Uzbekistan due to her business dealings and family connections. However, her influence began to wane in 2013 following a conflict with her father. She was placed under house arrest in 2014 and later questioned by Swiss prosecutors in a money-laundering investigation. In 2017, she was banned by the U.S. Department of the Treasury from dealing with American entities. Karimova was sentenced to jail in 2017 for fraud and money laundering, with the sentence later commuted to house arrest before being imprisoned again in 2019.