 In March 2014, the Swiss Prosecutor's Office announced that it had extended a money laundering investigation to include Karimova.The probe, launched in 2012, had initially focused on four of Karimova’s allies.Working though the Kleptocracy Asset Recovery Initiative, the U.S. Department of Justice seized $850 million in 2016 that had been "funneled through corrupt deals" by Karimova.