Our reports

Alisher Ilkhamov 4 December, 2025 The article analyses the shortcomings of international policies and practices governing the restitution of assets stolen through grand corruption, using the case of Gulnara Karimova, daughter of former Uzbek President Islam Karimov, as a central lens. The author evaluates Switzerland’s mixed record in asset recovery, highlighting both innovative efforts and persistent deficiencies, which nevertheless stands in contrast to the far weaker – and at times implicitly neocolonial – approaches in this field taken by several EU member states and the European Union as a whole. The author critiques the limitations of existing