Azerbaijan handed over internationally wanted person to Kazakhstan - Prosecutor General's Office

Azerbaijan handed over internationally wanted person to Kazakhstan - Prosecutor General
# 11 April 2024 14:18 (UTC +04:00)

A foreign citizen serving a sentence in Azerbaijan has been extradited to his country, according to the Prosecutor General's Office of the Republic of Azerbaijan, APA reports.

In accordance with the requirements of the Convention dated 07.10.2002 "On legal assistance and legal relations in civil, family and criminal cases" , and based on the petition of the General Prosecutor's Office of the Republic of Kazakhstan, a decision was made by the Prosecutor General's Office of Azerbaijan to hand over Rinat Gabitov Tursuntayevich, a citizen of said country serving a sentence in the territory of the Republic of Azerbaijan, to Kazakhstan for a period of 3 months.

In the criminal case investigated by the law enforcement agencies of the Republic of Kazakhstan, as reasonable suspicions have been established that Rinat Gabitov committed the crimes of creating an organized group, repeated economic smuggling and evading payment of customs payments, an international search has been issued with a decision to bring him in as an accused person.

On April 10, Rinat Gabitov was handed over to the officials of the authorities of the Republic of Kazakhstan, accompanied by a special convoy of the Penitentiary Service of the Ministry of Justice.

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