STOCKHOLM: Swedish prosecutors are investigating the daughter of Uzbekistan’s president on suspicion of taking bribes to let Nordic telecoms company TeliaSonera enter the country’s market, they said on Monday.

Gulnara Karimova, daughter of President Islam Karimov, had already been named by the Swiss public prosecutor as a suspect in the case which is also being investigated by Dutch and US authorities .

Prosecutors are looking into allegations that when TeliaSonera paid 2.3 billion Swedish crowns ($358m) for a 3G licence in Uzbekistan in 2007 to Gibraltar-registered firm Takilant, it knew the company was a front for Karimova.

Uzbekistan’s ambassador to the United Nations in Geneva from December 2008 until last year, 41-year-old Karimova is also a jewellery designer and pop singer whose stage name is “Googosha”. —Reuters