Uzbek in Swiss Laundering Case Was Unfairly Held, UN Says (1)

The Uzbek businesswoman at the heart of an impending Swiss money-laundering trial involving Lombard Odier & Cie was unfairly detained by her government for years, a United Nations panel concluded.

The June opinion by the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention makes repeated references to the Swiss case against Gulnara Karimova and Lombard Odier, and while it isn’t legally binding defense lawyers could use its conclusions to try to weaken the prosecutors’ case.

Karimova was charged in 2023 by Swiss prosecutors over an alleged scheme in which she accepted millions of dollars in bribes from telecoms providers in exchange for ...