AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - A Dutch court has ordered the confiscation of 123 million euros (103 million pounds) in assets from a Dutch-based company that prosecutors alleged was used by two telecoms companies to bribe Gulnara Karimova, the elder daughter of Uzbekistan's president, to secure local operating licences.
The Amsterdam court said in a ruling it had found that the company, Takilant, had received bribes from Vimpelcom and Telia AB to allow their Uzbek subsidiaries, Unitel and Ucell, to operate in the local mobile market.
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