The request of the Prosecutor General's Office of the Republic of Uzbekistan to extradite Gulnoza Rakhmatullaevna Burkhonova, born in 1987, a citizen of the Republic of Uzbekistan, for criminal liability has been granted by the Prosecutor General's Office of the Republic of Azerbaijan, the Press Service of the Prosecutor's Office told APA.
G.R. Burkhonova, who was accused of committing the crimes of fraud and forgery of official documents in Uzbekistan and put on an international wanted list, was identified and detained in Azerbaijan, and a preventive measure of arrest was chosen for her.
A decision was made to extradite the accused in accordance with the Convention "On Legal Assistance and Legal Relations in Civil, Family and Criminal Matters" dated 07.10.2002, and the latter was handed over to the authorized body of the Republic of Uzbekistan accompanied by a special convoy of the Penitentiary Service of the Ministry of Justice.