Kont Bank
Founded2010
FounderBabak Zanjani
Headquarters
Dushanbe
,
Tajikistan
Key people
Fayzullo Salikhov (Acting Chairman)[1]
Websitekontinvestmentbank.tj

Kont Investment Bank was a bank operating in Dushanbe, under license from National Bank of Tajikistan. The bank's chairman was Fayzullo Salikhov.[2] On March 30, 2017, the bank was renamed Bank Asia (Bonki Osiyo), under which name it currently operates.[3]

The Kont Investment Bank was founded in 2011 by Iranian entrepreneur Babak Zanjani, who held investments in several Tajik businesses, including a bank, an airline, a taxi service, and a bus terminal that Tajik President Imomali Rahmon himself helped inaugurate in March 2013.[4] The bank came under scrutiny by the US Treasury Service, as a possible money laundering entity which was suspected of moving large sums of oil-related money on behalf the Iranian government.[4]

Zanjani reportedly sold the bank in 2015, and it is now wholly owned by R. S. Saidov.[3][5]

References

  1. ↑ "Banking system". Archived from the original on 2016-05-12. Retrieved 2016-05-09.
  2. ↑ "Banking system". Archived from the original on May 12, 2016.
  3. 1 2 "Kont Investment Bank renamed Bonki Osiyo". Asia-Plus News Agency. March 31, 2017. Retrieved December 27, 2018.
  4. 1 2 "Tajikistan: Where Iranian Money Takes a Bath?". EurasiaNet.org.
  5. ↑ "List of shareholders of bank". National Bank of Tajikistan. June 30, 2018. Retrieved December 27, 2018.
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