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According to the letter, Gulami is referring to a 2013 press release titled "Another Investment Dispute Complaint Against the Latvian Government Received". Gulami points out that the Cabinet of Ministers – with no court ruling, in the form of an allegation – called him 'the leader of a band of criminals", and presented as a fact the allegation that Gulami mastered a plot to confiscate "Royal Square Hotel & Suites" and "Garden Palace Hotel" from two citizens of Uzbekistan; "one, indeed, his former business partner Akbar Abdullaev and the other – former board member Eldyor Yunosov."

This press release subsequently served as the basis for several feature stories that appeared in Delfi, Diena, etc.

The matter of the hotels was in litigation several years – since 2013, Gulami underlines, "on whether I, as authorized representative of Brook Organisation L.P./Scotland/ did or did not have the right to act as I saw fit. A higher court in Scotland ruled in my favor in 2014, and just recently, on March 17, the lawsuit ended favorably here in Latvia."

Hence the letter to the Cabinet, requesting it to now "foster equality and justice."

"Just as the Cabinet back in 2013, via a press release, without any proof, damaged my reputation in the public eye, I now demand rehabilitation via an equivalent press release in the mass media."

Should the Cabinet neglect to follow through, Gulami says he will be "forced to resort to legal means."