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25 Mar 2009

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Uznews.net

Chopard and Guli blood diamonds [Uzbekistan]

Uzbek human rights activist Abdujalil Boymatov has urged Chopard jewellery and watch company to reconsider its relations with Gulnara Karimova and plans to promote the Guli brand in order to avoid association with blood diamonds. Boimatov…sent a letter to the company in which he expressed his bewilderment about its cooperation with the Uzbek president’s daughter Gulnara Karimova. Chopard is expected to promote Karimova’s Guli collection at an exhibition in Basel…The activist thinks that the company knows little about Uzbekistan, its dictator President Islam Karimov and the origins of the Karimov family’s wealth.