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February 2, 2018
Rumours of assassination plots
Reports that members of the SNB were conspiring to assassinate reformist Mirziyoyev surfaced in September on the opposition People's Movement of Uzbekistan website. There were even claims that the president escaped a plot to murder him during a visit to Kyrgyzstan. More specifically, an "active member" of Islamic State (IS) was supposedly meant to carry out an attack based on a plan stemming from the alleged machinations of SNB generals during the second half of August. The plot, it is further claimed, failed to come to fruition as the IS member was arrested by the Kyrgyz state security services (GKNB) on September 2.
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Political analyst Usman Khaknazarov, in an article published last September 11, accused the SNB
of trying to “sabotage” Uzbekistan Airlines planes in order to threaten Mirziyoyev and dissuade him from removing an SNB stooge, Valery Tyan, as the head of the company. The article also indirectly accused Inoyatov of being involved in these efforts. Tyan, according to Khaknazarov, worked in favour of Inoyatov’s personal interests. The airline, he said, had been turned into a corrupt business involved in smuggling goods from and to South Korea, among other operations. The claims,
of course, should be taken with a bucketful of salt, as the country is no stranger to unfounded rumours.