Gulnora Islomovna Karimova (born July 8, 1972) is the daughter of President Islom Karimov of Uzbekistan. She serves as an Advisor to the Ambassador of Uzbekistan in Russia and is believed to have built an extensive business empire that includes the largest wireless telephone operator in Uzbekistan, night clubs, and a large cement factory.
Alisher Usmanov, as chairman of Gazprom Investholdings paid a bribe of $88 million to Gulnara Karimova to took over the country’s natural gas assets, as a lot of fans of Arsenal discoverd when Usmanov became famous becoming the major investor of their team.
Trough this political move Russia closed the possibility for the Nabucco Gas Pipeline Project to be realized.
Nabucco Project simply tries to diversificates the energy suppliers of Europe, now mainly based on Gazprom—>Russia.
She has a warrant for her arrest in New Jersey after fleeing the United States with her children following a messy divorce and custody battle that resulted in her Afghan American ex-husband being awarded custody.
But, before becoming a oil millionaire, she wanted to become a pop singer and she even recorded a music video Britney Spears style, that she’s trying to remove fro the web, but seems hard…
