Employees of the General Prosecutor's Office and the Financial Monitoring Agency (FMA) extradited a citizen of Kazakhstan from Georgia to face criminal liability for the possession and sale of counterfeit banknotes.
According to the press service of the Prosecutor General's Office, he is suspected of having brought counterfeit banknotes from Turkey in 2024 and selling them in Kazakhstan.
"After committing the crime, the suspect fled, and as a result, he was placed on the international wanted list," the statement said.
In May of this year, he was detained in Georgia and extradited to his homeland. The suspect has now been placed in a pre-trial detention centre. For the crime he is accused of, he could face 5 to 10 years in prison with confiscation of property.
In March, a suspect in a fraud case was extradited to Kazakhstan from Germany. It was noted that the man, along with two accomplices, created fictitious companies and, under the guise of delivering wheat, obtained funds from an entrepreneur totalling over 100 million tenge.
It was later reported that a defendant in a case involving the fraudulent theft of $1 million from citizens of Kazakhstan in December 2014 was detained at Warsaw Airport.
In early June, the Prosecutor General's Office extradited a Kazakh citizen from the Russian Federation to face criminal liability for participating in a criminal organisation, illegal drug trafficking, and smuggling.