VimpelCom Limited And Unitel LLC Enter Into Global Foreign Bribery Resolution Of More Than $795 Million - United States Seeks $850 Million Forfeiture In Corrupt Proceeds of Bribery Scheme - Companies Agree To Pay $230 Million U.S. Criminal Fine In Connection With Foreign Corrupt Practices Act Resolution - Largest Case Ever Brought Under The Kleptocracy Asset Recovery Initiative

Amsterdam-based VimpelCom Limited, the world’s sixth-largest telecommunications company and an issuer of publicly traded securities in the United States, and its wholly owned Uzbek subsidiary, Unitel LLC, entered into resolutions with the Department of Justice today in which they admitted to a conspiracy to make more than $114 million in bribery payments to a government official in Uzbekistan between 2006 and 2012 to enable them to enter and continue operating in the Uzbek telecommunications market.