Power & Influence
A company owned by Nur Muhammed Palvan, son of an alleged Central Asian smuggling tycoon, paid $3 million for a north London church now operating as the UK’s first Uyghur mosque — raising questions about the origin of the funds.
President Shavkat Mirziyoyev announced on 16 October the creation of an Investors’ Council for the fuel and energy sector, placing his daughter and Head of the Presidential Administration, Saida Mirziyoyeva, at its helm. The president cited bureaucracy and corruption as the explicit reasons for the new body.
President Shavkat Mirziyoyev announced on October 16 that Saida Mirziyoyeva will chair a newly created energy sector investors council, established in direct response to complaints from major international energy companies about land allocation delays, grid connection bottlenecks and slow issuance of technical specifications.
President Mirziyoyev has created an Investors’ Council for the fuel and energy sector, chaired by Presidential Administration head Saida Mirziyoyeva, citing bureaucracy and corruption as the forces compelling the decision.
The EU’s 21st Russia sanctions package targets two Kazakhstani firms, three Kyrgyz companies, a Kyrgyz bank connected to Russia’s SWIFT alternative, and 14 cryptocurrency platforms, as Brussels escalates pressure on Central Asian trade and financial channels.
From the paralysis of dual power after Nazarbayev’s 2019 resignation to the post-January 2022 prosecutions of security chiefs, oligarchs and former ministers, Kazakhstan’s anti-corruption drive has returned more than $1.5 billion in assets from a single convict alone — while leaving other members of the old guard untouched.
Washington’s 12 April sanctions package targeting Alisher Usmanov’s business empire and Russia-linked evasion networks has designated Uzbek cement producer Akhangarancement, a telecoms joint venture part-owned by Uzbek authorities, and two small Uzbek firms accused of procuring US goods for Russia’s military.
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