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Oktobank has emerged as a hub for suspicious financial operations linking Uzbek authorities, Russian banks, and shadow networks.

After multiple outlets published articles implying that Dmitry Lee, the head of Uzbekistan’s National Agency for Perspective Projects, is suspected of fraudulent activities related to payment systems, these outlets started experiencing pressure, and the articles were quickly removed.

At the end of January, an interview with the Chairman of the Board of Octobank, Iskandar Tursunov, appeared on several platforms. The substantive value of the interview is low, however, Tursunov, who is also the bank’s main shareholder, is clearly trying to weaken the growing wave of negativity around Octobank in this way.

At the end of September, two events occurred concerning Oktobank that will have far-reaching consequences.

Octobank is an Uzbek bank which name has recently surfaced in a number of scandals related to the withdrawal of Russian capital from sanctions.

Although the owner of the Uzbek Octobank is formally listed as the bank’s chairman of the board, Iskandar Tursunov, who owns 99.16% of the shares, in fact, the beneficiaries of Octobank are the family of the country’s current president, Shavkat Mirziyoyev.

As a number of Telegram channels recently reported, the Uzbek Octobank is used to withdraw and legalize money from Russia.