The Prosecutor General's Office of the Republic of Kazakhstan extradited a citizen of Uzbekistan from Russia to face criminal charges for fraud.
According to the press service of the department, the suspect worked as an accountant at a construction company in Almaty.
"Between 2005 and 2007, while working as an accountant at a construction company in Almaty, the suspect received money from participants in shared construction, issued fake receipts not recorded in the accounting ledgers for cash receipt orders for the unfinished residential complex project," the statement said.
More than 80 residents of Almaty were affected by the criminal actions of the former accountant and other accomplices, suffering damages amounting to over 3.7 billion tenge.
One of the suspect's accomplices was convicted, while the former accountant fled after the crime, prompting an international manhunt.
In December last year, the wanted individual was detained in the Krasnodar region of Russia, and later extradited to Kazakhstan at the request of the Prosecutor General's Office of the Republic of Kazakhstan.
The suspect has now been placed in a pre-trial detention centre. The penalty for the crime she is charged with carries a sentence of 5 to 10 years in prison with confiscation of property.
Recall that in June, a suspect in large-scale fraud was extradited to Kazakhstan from the United Arab Emirates. It was reported that in 2010, the offender received 50 million tenge from a victim to deliver a Rolls-Royce car from the USA, after which he disappeared with the money.
In July, a suspect accused of leading a branch of the Finiko financial pyramid in the Kostanay region, whose investors lost over 167 million tenge, was extradited to Kazakhstan from Armenia.
In September, a Kazakh citizen was extradited from Turkey to face criminal charges for embezzlement of entrusted property. According to the press service of the Prosecutor General's Office, the suspect, while working as an accountant for a commercial organisation in Almaty, embezzled approximately 27 million tenge between 2022 and 2023.
In mid-November, a Kazakh citizen who had been placed on the wanted list was detained on a Greek island. She is suspected of fraud. In 2021, while working as an accountant for a limited liability partnership in Almaty, she illegally transferred $230,000 to her account.