connections. Karimova used Takilant, a company in Gibraltar, to own bank accounts that channelled more than $114 million in bribes from Vimpelcom, a Russian-owned, Bermuda-incorporated, Dutch-based telecoms company, from 2006 until 2012. The accounts were at banks in Latvia, Hong Kong, the Netherlands and New York, and the payments were disguised as consulting services, and came from companies in the British Virgin Islands.
