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You should know where the money’s coming from: a response to the mayor of Tashkent

Last week, I reported on a possible conflict of interest over a mammoth urban development in Uzbekistan. The mayor of Tashkent responded to my claims — here’s my reaction.

By Kristian Lasslett
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Tashkent City Press Conference, 31 January. Source: BBC Uzbek / YouTube.

On 29 January, openDemocracy published evidence linking the mayor of Tashkent, Jaxongir Artikxodjaev, to commercial, construction and investment interests which have been awarded a slice of Tashkent City, a mega-development labelled Uzbekistan’s biggest-ever property venture. Last month, another investigation showed that one of the foreign investors in this project, a German company, appears to be hiding its true identity behind layers of corporate ownership.

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