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Table 2: Offshore ownership structure of investor for lots one, five, and seven, Tashkent City 307   Company



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Table 2: Offshore ownership structure of investor for lots one, five, and seven, Tashkent City
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Company 
Shareholders 
Person with Significant Control 
(UK only) 
Techno Continental 
Wynex Innovation LLP (100%) 
None declared 
Next Generation Product 
MacMerry Management LP 
(50%), Singapore Syndicate 
Group Pte Ltd (50%) 
Dalston Management LP (Dalston 
Management declares no PSC) 
 
Perfect Plast Profil 
Esperansa Group LP (100%) 
Esperansa Incorporated LP
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Wide Tent System 
Esperansa Group LP (100%) 
Esperansa Incorporated LP 
Asia Electron 
MacMerry Management LLP 
(50%), Commerce Standard Pte 
Ltd (50%) 
Dalston Management LP (Dalston 
Management declares no PSC) 
 
Quality Electronics 
MacMerry Management LP 
(50%), Commerce Standard Pte 
Ltd (50%) 
Dalston Management LP (Dalston 
Management declares no PSC) 
 
Factory of Technologies 
MacMerry Management LP 
(50%), Singapore Syndicate 
Group Pte Ltd (50%) 
Dalston Management LP (Dalston 
Management declares no PSC) 
 
 
After the above details were published in the international and national media, a leaked audio-
recording emerged. The voice recording is reported to be the Tashkent Mayor.
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 The recorded voice 
makes serious threats against the media. The threats include disappearing journalists, or subjecting 
them to false allegations of a homophobic nature.  
 
                                                           
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 Letter from E Iminov, Head of Administration Tashkent Mayor’s Office, to K Lasslett, Professor of Criminology, Ulster University, 25 April 
2019. 
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 Techno Continental JSC, Company Extract, 569933, accessed 19 May 2019; Wynex Innovation LLP, Company Extract, OC393843, 
beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/company/OC393843; Next Generation Production, Company Extract, 600194, accessed 19 May 2019; 
MacMerry Management LP, Company Extract, SL011585, https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/company/SL011585; Perfect Plast Profil 
JSC, Company Extract, 1633, accessed 22 May 2019; Esperansa Group LP acquired a 100% stake in Perfect Plast Profil JSC, Tashkent 
Republic Stock Exchange, July 2018, https://www.uzse.uz/boards/539?locale=en; Esperansa Group LP, Company Extract, SL025982, 
https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/company/SL025982; Wide Tent Systems JSC, Company Extract, 1652, accessed 15 September 2019;  
Asia Electron, Company Extract, 533066, accessed 19 May 2019;  Quality Electronics, Company Extract, 561905, accessed 19 May 2019; 
Factory of Technologies, Company Extract, 600187, accessed 19 May 2019. 
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 Esperansa Incorporated LP is an English Limited Partnership and is not deemed a relevant legal entity for the purposes of PSC 
declarations under the Scottish Partnerships (Register of People with Significant Control) Regulations 2017. This is due to the fact English 
limited partnerships are not subject to equivalent transparency requirements that would permit the public to successfully trace the chain 
of PSCs.  
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 Farangis Najibullah, 'No winners in this fight': Journalists resign after Tashkent Mayor's 'death' 'gay threats', Radio Free Europe/Radio 
Liberty, November 2019, https://www.rferl.org/a/uzbek-journalists-resign-after-tashkent-mayors-death-gay-threats-/30282235.html; 
Uzbekistan decides against charges over mayor's threats against journalists, Reuters, November 2019, https://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-
uzbekistan-mayor-media/uzbekistan-decides-against-charges-over-mayors-threats-against-journalists-idUKKBN1Y11GB 


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Given the levels of state secrecy experienced, it is difficult to substantively compare and contrast 
this case with the example of Gulnara Karimova. However, there are certain prima facie parallels. 
First, we observe in the case of Tashkent City a major state organised economic opportunity being 
awarded through closed channels, instead of a transparent open tender. Second, numerous 
corporate beneficiaries of the subsequent awards made through a closed process, exhibit a range of 
red flags. These red flags include the use of opaque offshore holding companies, further 
camouflaged in one instance by a persons with significant control declaration that violates UK 
transparency laws (see footnote 22). Third, some of the key corporate beneficiaries of this mega-
project are tied to the Akfa-Artel conglomerate, a group founded by the current Mayor of Tashkent, 
who previous served as head of the Tashkent City directorate. No conflict of interest has been 
acknowledged by the Mayor’s office. Finally, following a period of heightened scrutiny it appears the 
Mayor used serious threats to intimidate journalists. This echoes the coercive tactics experienced by 
residents displaced by the Tashkent City project.
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These features of Tashkent City, as a totality, reflect many of the risk factors exhibited by the 
Karimova case between 2000 and 2012, which were subsequently found to be the outward 
symptoms of corrupt activity following extensive investigation by justice agencies in multiple 
jurisdictions. While Tashkent City may exhibit a number of the same red flags documented in the 
Karimova case, it cannot be factually established the same types of corruption underpin Tashkent 
City. Given the Uzbekistani state’s opposition to basic forms of transparency in this case, it is unlikely 
there will be any state-led attempt to verify whether or not the red flags pointed to above are 
symptomatic of impropriety. However, based off the information collated to date, and the state 
secrecy surrounding Tashkent City, serious concerns remain over the probity of this mega-project. 
 
These concerning structural features exhibited by Tashkent City were observed in a sector wide 
study of cotton conducted during 2019. Although, in this study more granular detail was uncovered 
on certain key corporate players.  

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