Russian Mobile Carrier, Mobile Telesystems, Settles FCPA Case with DOJ and FCPA for $850 Million; MTS Executive and Notorious Uzbek Government Official Indicted (Part I of III)

Michael Volkov begins a three-part series looking at the new settlements of the DOJ and SEC with Russian telecom giant Mobile TeleSystems and its Uzbek subsidiary for $850 million; and the associated indictments of Gulnara Karimova, daughter of Uzbekistan's former president and a repeat subject of corruption investigations, and Bekhzod Akhmedov, a former MTS executive based in Uzbekistan.