 In January 2017, "The Wall Street Journal" reported that Karimova was questioned by Swiss prosecutors in December, 2016, regarding accusations of money-laundering.At the time she was being kept under house arrest.In 2015, an investigation by the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project reported that Karimova had taken over US$1 billion in bribes from Scandinavian and Russian telecom companies wanting involvement in the Uzbek market.