[1] The American investors included a group from Perry, Ga, that consisted of a dentist, an eye doctor, an insurance man, an engineer and a stockbroker organized by the red-haired Brian L. Bowen, who was 37 years old in 1996.
[1] Gulnora Karimova gained control of the firm in the late 1990s or early 2000s,[3] and by 2005 it was 74% owned by Russia's MTS, which paid $121 million for the stake.
[7] In August 2012, the government of Uzbekistan revoked the company's operating license and arrested several of its top management, citing repeated regulatory violations.
[8] At the completion of the case in September 2012, the company's assets were seized, and some of its executives sentenced to prison terms.
[9] The company's chief executive, Bekhzod Akhmedov, described as "at the heart of ... [the] dispute", left Uzbekistan and Interpol issued a warrant for his arrest.