The son of the late Uzbek president Islam Karimov, Pyotr Karimov, filed a lawsuit against his widow, Tatyana Karimova. The case will be considered in the Yakkasaray Interdistrict Court for Civil Cases in Tashkent on June 26. The subject of the court case on the website of the Tashkent City Court is «disputes arising from the right of inheritance».
Pyotr Karimov is the son of Islam Karimov from his first marriage to Natalya Petrovna Kuchmi. Natalya Kuchmi, according to numerous sources of information, was the daughter of the director general of the Tashkent Aviation Production Association named after V.P. Chkalov (TAPOiCh), which existed under the Soviet Union. It was after meeting Natalya — Islam Karimov himself worked at TAPOiCh from 1961 to 1966 — that Islam Karimov’s career growth skyrocketed. Natalya Kuchmi died in Tashkent in 2008, and Islam Karimov ruled Uzbekistan for 27 years, until his death in 2016 (he regularly zeroed out his terms).
Pyotr Karimov graduated from the Tashkent Institute of National Economy in the late eighties, worked in the field of banking and finance and in the representative office of the national airline Uzbekistan Airways in Moscow.
In 2018, Pyotr Karimov filed a lawsuit against Uzbekistan Airways. Pyotr accused the company of being fired in 2017, after the death of his father, and that he was not paid the money owed. By the end of that year, the case was closed due to an early settlement agreement between the plaintiff and the defendant.
Pyotr Karimov has lived mainly in Moscow or the Moscow region since the 1990s. In May, he was called to the police station on suspicion of brutally beating his wife. The incident occurred in a high-rise building in Krasnogorsk near Moscow. Pyotr Karimov, during the conflict with Yulia Smetankina, hit her several times. The woman was hospitalized with various injuries (in the hospital she was diagnosed with a blunt abdominal trauma, concussion and bleeding), and Karimov was taken to the police department. After interrogation, he was released. According to Smetankina, the quarrel started over money.
According to some reports, Pyotr is now 54, according to others, he is older. The official biography of the late president does not mention marriage to Kuchmi, but mentions three children (recall that the eldest daughter of Islam Karimov, Gulnara Karimova, is serving time in an Uzbek prison, and the youngest, Lola, changed her last name and lives in the United States).
Karimov met his second wife, Tatyana, in 1970. Now Tatyana Karimova is 74 years old.