Timur Tillyaev is the husband of the younger daughter of Uzbekistan's president Islam Karimov, Lola Karimova-Tillyaeva. He is reportedly a shareholder in a trade and transport company, Abu Sahiy Nur, a profitable market leader in Uzbekistan.

Sources close to the country's power circles said that Karimov's younger daughter and her husband have always distanced themselves from Uzbekistan's politics and political elite, making it clear that they do not have any political aspirations. Lola Karimova-Tillyaeva, in her recent interview with the BBC, said that Mr Tillyaev has not benefited from her family connections and he has never been involved in public tenders, been associated with national resource industries like gas and cotton, and does not enjoy tax exemptions or monopoly status.

Karimova-Tillyaeva told the BBC she doesn't have any political ambitions and never discussed politics during her rare meeting with her father.

Lola Karimova Tillyaeva