The trial of Gulnara Karimova, daughter of the former president of Uzbekistan, begins on Monday at the Federal Criminal Court in Bellinzona. Karimova is charged with money laundering, breach of trust, corruption, and leading a criminal organisation known as “The Office”. + Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox Also in the dock are a former asset manager at Lombard Odier and the Geneva-based private bank itself, both charged with money laundering. Karimova’s former right-hand man, charged with aggravated money laundering, corruption, and forgery of documents, rounds out the list of co-defendants. The money laundering activities are alleged to have taken place between 2005 and 2012. Karimova, formerly a businesswoman, singer, and socialite in her spare time, is accused of having opened more than 30 bank accounts at Swiss financial institutions through straw men. According to the Office of the Attorney General of Switzerland (OAG), the funds of illicit origin were …