it's all supposition until you can produce some names. the article names NO ONE and if the corruption was really that bad and teh link that solid then there would be some naming and shaming.
I don't subscribe to "guilty until proven innocent" so unless there's some proof that bunyodkor have connections to the government (which was the big scandal as the government is horrible) then I'm not going to get caught up in the drama.
Okay very well, you've every right to hold that view but to be honest it's quite odd that you should think like that, because I would assume that living in the West actually opens up your eyes to these issues.
First thing's first. You're not going to see any names because the Uzbek government wouldn't be stupid enough to release names. It is sort of an open secret. Known to the outsiders but obviously beyond their influence, and concealed from those inside Uzbekistan - obviously not well enough, but surely there is reciprocation if anyone attempts to speak up. When in 2007 in Syria the Israelis found evidence of North Koreans working on a nuclear project there, everyone knew it was true. But it was just another example of shady business, with the NK government denying it. The Uzbek government is very much the same. But I repeat,
everyone knows that when you ask a question, if they answer it is likely to be full of crap.
Secondly, you must understand the situation in most of developing Asia. I live in the Philippines, supposedly an open and democratic country. But even here, if you are a businessman and wish to say bring in a new and potentially lucrative product, you don't just do it like you would in the West. You have to bribe the government, the police, the health and safety bureau, the this bureau and the that bureau, the courts and then the police again - you bribe them so you can bribe them in the first place. If you don't bribe, you will be screwed because you'll see that your product doesn't get on the shelf. You'll see that you mysteriously have charges put against you that are completely lacking in substance but will not be excused because you have not bribed the judge, and so you're dead. But assuming that you get all your bribing done, if you want to visit your warehouse or your factory, you have to go there with a bodyguard and a bribed police escort, because if you don't then you will be shot by a) a deluded "communist" b) any trade-unionist, or a subject under bribe from a trade unionist c) a muslim extremist trying to make the headlines. Of course if you don't bribe the government then you'll be shot by someone not as far from the government as any of the above three groups.
That's the Philippines.
Now how about Uzbekistan? Sealed away from most of the world because of its past, controlled by an autocrat claiming to be a democrat... You either play by the rules of the government or you don't play at all.
If it takes that much to do something small in the Philippines, then you can imagine how much it takes to do something big, like CREATE A FOOTBALL CLUB in Uzbekistan.
If the club isn't run by the government (but it is, I'm sure of it) then it must be run by someone who has connections to the government, who has bribed the government, who has crazymoney. If you have money in Uzbekistan, it is because you own some of the industry. And how do you get to do that? Well it's all because you are affiliated to the government. There is no such thing as an Uzbek man who makes a name and a living for himself. Don't even think that Bunyodkor can exist because someone has come and created them out of nothing. Everyone who has anything in Uzbekistan has to have connections. And Bunyodkor is an absolute extreme because of its sheer financial presence. It is morally wrong to deal with a club that prospers while 45% of the country's citizens live below the poverty line. Well, more than 45% for sure, but I woulnd't know the figures. But it is even more wrong to deal with a club that does the above in a country like Uzbekistan, because it's just so damn obvious that everything has to be connected to the government there.
but mainly :sad:
