Usmanov’s PR people claim it would have been impossible for Gazprom to pay a bribe to President Karimov’s daughter Gulnara because
No evidence has ever been forthcoming and the accounts of Gazprominvest [the Gazprom company of which Usmanov is president] are audited by PricewaterhouseCoopers
http://football.guardian.co.uk/News_Story/0,,2202113,00.html
That of course is deeply reassuring. Usmanov is audited by the people who brought you Robert Maxwell’s accounts
http://visar.csustan.edu/aaba/auditmaxwell.htm
and the BCCI accounts
http://visar.csustan.edu/aaba/bccipress.html
I hope that you are suitably reassured.
PWC has a bit of a reputation in Moscow, and with Gazprom in particular – http://www.cdi.org/russia/johnson/6065-11.cfm
And its dealings with Yukos have also been fairly well advertised, not least by the Russian authorities themselves…
To: Mr Murray
from: Muzaffar Ismoilov
subject: Alisher Usmonov
Hi, my name is Muzaffar, i'm Uzbek and I have a comment on your views about ALisher Usmanov.
Being a BSW(social work) student and most of all, a resident of Uzbekitan, I strongly disagree with most of your points since they're all biased and even fabricated, just think about it – the whole world is just like that, i mean everything is all about business, take the US 4xample; the war in Iraq is all about geopolitical influence and oil in the first place. And DO YOU KNOW that some of the HUGE US corporation leaders have always had ties with MAFIA, they still do, and will always influence US policies overseas, right. Chelsea for example, is now of the finest world clubs due to Russian investments. Every other UK resident wants to greet Mr. Abramamovich in person. As for our country however, we have had tremendous changes by now brought about by foreign investments and particularly due to Alisher Usmonov's policies. The situation is way better since the time you, SIR, were kicked out of this country because of your immoral behaviour with Uzbekistani prostitutes. how can you claim he is a criminal if you can't even prove his guilt, what you said above are just nothing but rumors.
You, Mr. Murray, are the one to be refered to as criminal and charged with SEXUAL DEPRAVITY or even a harrasment since you were hanging out with underage non adult females at Tashkent nightclubs, namely SKY CLUB, while you were working as a British ambassador in Uzbekistan. You organized round table with bunch of idiots whose minds you could easily manipulate with your democracy propoganda and lost your job as a result. why don't you think broadly about Central Asia from now on. P.S. life never stays the same and people like Alisher Usmanov are the ones to make a REAL DIFFERENCE, but never people like you SIR !!!!
Happy New year once again
Being an Uzbek, I am ashamed to read the post by Muzaffar. And I really feel sorry for him and his generation if they truely belive that "people like Usmanov are the ones to make a real difference"… Sad…