Gulnara Karimova asks president for humanity and promises not to claim ownership of $686 million in her foreign bank accounts

AKIPRESS.COM - Gulnara Karimova, the daughter of Uzbekistan's late President Islam Karimov, addressed to the President of Uzbekistan asking for humanity in connection with her health condition.
Images posted on Instagram Stories by Ms Karimova's daughter Iman wrote that Gulnara Karimova's health has reportedly deteriorated and she promises not to claim ownership of $686 million held in her foreign bank accounts.
In 2017, Karimova was sentenced to 10 years in jail for fraud and money laundering.
Her Swiss lawyer, Grégoire Mangeat, earlier tweeted that his client needs medical aid.
Ms Karimova was once a prominent figure in Uzbek politics who held the posts of ambassador to Spain and permanent representative to the United Nations in Geneva, and was tipped to succeed her father, Islam Karimov, as president. She also had her own jewellery line, ran an entertainment television channel and released pop singles under the name Googoosha.
But she reportedly fell out with her father and family in 2014 and shortly after she was detained by security forces. She was not seen in public for years and when her father, an authoritarian leader who ran Uzbekistan for 27 years, died in September 2016, she did not attend the funeral.
Prosecutors accused her of being part of a criminal group that controlled assets of more than $1 billion in 12 countries, including the UK, Russia and United Arab Emirates, according to BBC. Then-prime minister Shavkat Mirziyoyev took over as president after the death of Islam Karimov in 2016.