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Veon executives dismissed as defendants in shareholder suit over Uzbek bribery

( August 30, 2018, 23:32 GMT | Official Statement) -- MLex Summary: US District Judge Andrew L. Carter dismissed claims against four senior executives of Dutch telecom Veon, saying the shareholders who sued them alleging they participated in bribery in Uzbekistan had not shown that any of the executive defendants — Alexander Izosimov, Joe Lunder, Cornelis Hendrik van Dalen and Andrew Mark Davies — was a "culpable participant" in the scheme. Veon, formerly known as Vimpelcom, signed a deferred prosecution agreement with the US Justice in February 2016 to resolve charges that it bribed the daughter of the former Uzbek president in order to obtain mobile phone licenses . Veon remains a defendant in the shareholder suit....

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