Wednesday explained Telenor CEO Jon Fredrik Baksaas and Chairman Svein Aaser in Parliament. They had to answer questions about corruption allegations in VimpelCom, where Telenor is great owner.
Tuesday received the Ministry of Industry an extensive note with allegations that corruption in Uzbekistan is more extensive than previously known.
An anonymous whistleblower who call themselves “Whistleblower” claims that VimpelCom has paid far greater amount of the Uzbek dictator’s daughter Gulnara Karimov than hitherto known.
American, Dutch and Swiss police investigating corruption allegations in Uzbekistan. So far it has been claimed that Karimov has received $ 94.5 million. The letter from whistleblower claimed that VimpelCom has paid her $ 219.5 million, or up towards 1.7 billion.
Notifier believe it is very realistic that Telenor’s representatives on VimpelCom board did not know about the payments.
Økokrim
– Industry and Fisheries Ministry received 7th, 8th and 13th January emails with information from an anonymous sender. The information includes allegations of reprehensible and illegal matters related to Telenor and VimpelCom issue, says the ministry’s communications manager Trond Viken Aftenposten.
The Ministry has also sent information to Økokrim. Viken says that it is natural in that it takes a police investigation of corruption in the telecom sector in many countries.
In a press release Telenor writes that the “assures that the company reports to and Industry Ministry of Fisheries and in the hearing Standing Committee on Scrutiny and Constitutional Affairs on 14 January 2015 has presented with the knowledge the company has about VimpelCom’s entry into Uzbekistan “.
The person has accumulated an extensive material about VimpelCom way into the telecommunications market in Uzbekistan and other markets. It consists of two notes. One is eight A4 pages, the second of two.
Telenor says that the material contains no new information on VimpelCom behavior. The Norwegian company will confront management in Vimpelcom with this information.
– Like buying Rolex on the street
“Whistleblower” examines Telenor management assurances that VimpelCom quality assured purchase of telecom license Uzbekistan. Competent notes that trade went through a “shell company” controlled by a woman in the 20s, and that this woman was left with very good profit.
“Would members of Telenor’s board buy a Rolex from someone on a street corner, and then get us to believe that they had no reason to believe that it was Stealing ‘, ask him.
Telenor writes in a press release that it is difficult to relate to such anonymous allegations and that they must examine them.
Telenor Krivá that “the note contains a mix of known and unknown information, allegations and speculation” , and appears as if the purpose may be to ask company in a bad light.
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