Uzbek citizen accused of $7 million fraud extradited to Kazakhstan

A citizen of Uzbekistan accused of committing a particularly large-scale fraud has been extradited from the Russian Federation to Kazakhstan for criminal prosecution. The Prosecutor General's Office of Kazakhstan reported this.

It is noted that the suspect while working as an accountant at a construction company in Almaty from 2005 to 2007, received money from participants in the construction of a multi-storey residential complex under an unfinished construction project. He attached fake receipts to cash orders that were not reflected in the accounting documents.

As a result of his actions and those of other participants in the crime, more than 80 residents of Almaty suffered losses, and their total losses exceeded 3.7 billion (7 million dollars).

One of the participants in the crime was sentenced by a court verdict, but the suspect went into hiding after committing the crime. Therefore, he was put on the international wanted list.

In December last year, the wanted person was detained in the Krasnodar Territory of Russia and then extradited to Kazakhstan at the request of the Prosecutor General's Office of the Republic of Kazakhstan.

The suspect is currently being held in a pre-trial detention center.

The crime he was charged with is punishable by imprisonment for a term of five to ten years, as well as confiscation of property.

We would like to remind you that earlier, during the operational-search activities conducted by the Migration Service Department of the Shymkent Regional Police Department of Kazakhstan, an Uzbek citizen who had been on the international wanted list for 8 years was detained.