Javlon Yunusov, named as the prime suspect in the October shooting targeting presidential insider Komil Allamjonov, has been arrested in South Korea on an Interpol red notice — but extradition is reported to be stalled. The investigation has exposed a web of connections spanning Uzbekistan’s pharmaceutical sector, a Chechen-linked criminal network active in Turkey, and the informal use of privileged government licence plates.
A Tashkent shell company capitalised at under $10,000 collected more than $100 million in Uzbek state gas contracts before disappearing. Ozodlik’s investigation traces its corporate network to President Mirziyoyev’s son-in-law Otabek Umarov through a web of UAE entities, a British citizenship-by-investment broker and the chairman of the national judo federation.
