A US-sanctioned Afghan who looks like Zamir Kabulov's friend is scaring Tashkent's business elite.
Author: Andrey Serenko, Head of the Analytical Center of the Society of Political Scientists of Russia
Strange and funny messages are being sent by our friends from the capital of Uzbekistan.
Allegedly, a man who looks like a Russian businessman of Afghan origin Kamaluddin Ghulam Nabizada (who, as you know, is a close friend of the special representative of the President of the Russian Federation for Afghanistan, Zamir Nabiyevich Kabulov), often visited Tashkent.
At the same time, the "similar person" (let's call him that) not only claims that he is Kamaluddin Ghulam Nabizada (they believe in it) (in Afghanistan he is known as Kamal Nabizade - "Sangar"), but at the same time, assures his interlocutors from among the major Uzbek businessmen that he is, in one case, a "representative of the FSB in Uzbekistan", and in another - "Putin's representative" in the same place.
To prove his words, the "similar person" presents a photo from the screen of his expensive gadget, where he seems to be posing against the background of General B. from the FSB or Minister L. from the Foreign Ministry...
After such a spectacular self-presentation, the "similar person" begins to offer various projects to the best representatives of the Uzbek business elite. Well, like a joint business selling oil, gas, and fuels and lubricants, an offer to sell him a nitrogen factory or, at worst, something like a flour mill...
At the same time, the “looks like” invites the Uzbek interlocutors to conduct joint business in neighboring Afghanistan, assuring that everything is under his control there and that he is on friendly terms with the Taliban Foreign Minister himself, Mullah Muttaqi (it seems that a photo with him was also attached to the consideration of those who opened their mouths interlocutors in Tashkent).
Tashkent businessmen, in the course of a conversation with a man who looks like Kamaluddin Ghulam Nabizada, went nuts about two times.
The first is from the emotional pressure and kaleidoscope of photographs of Nabizada with representatives of the highest political class of the Russian Federation, who are under the most striking international sanctions.
The second - from the proposals "to start a joint business so that it doesn't get worse" bordering on signs of an impending raider takeover.
But it's much worse, the Uzbek business sharks whisper among themselves. After all, this same Kamaluddin Ghulam Nabizada (if it is, of course, he) is under specific US sanctions (for the arms trade and other respectable achievements in narrow circles). And this means that if any of the Uzbek businessmen decide to suddenly respond to the business initiatives of "the representative of the FSB and Putin in Uzbekistan", then they themselves will almost certainly fall under US sanctions.
And serene Tashkent businessmen are not ready for such a development of events, with all due respect to Putin and the FSB.
Therefore, according to our Tashkent correspondents, representatives of the large Uzbek capital are looking for channels to somehow delicately convey to Moscow that they, of course, agree to cooperate with excellent Russian friends.
But you can do it in such a way that at the same time, you don’t create unnecessary risks and don’t customize the person involved as the main partner, with whom General B. and Minister L. may not disdain to take a picture (they don’t care anymore), but who is too toxic for anything not yet guilty businessmen of Uzbekistan.
We will assume that we have conveyed this concern.
