The Prosecutor General's Office reported the extradition from the Russian Federation of a member of an organised criminal group suspected of the illegal legalisation of freight vehicles imported into the country from abroad. The group operated in the Zhetysu region.
According to the agency's press service, the man worked as a specialist at the NJSC «State Corporation «Government for Citizens» and in 2022–2023, as part of the organised criminal group, sought out vehicle owners.
According to the investigation, he registered their vehicles based on deliberately false information regarding payments for the initial registration fee, entering these into the information system contrary to the established procedure.
As a result, 481 vehicles were illegally registered. The damage to the state in the form of unpaid mandatory fees amounted to 3.7 billion tenge.
After committing the crimes, the suspect went into hiding and was placed on the international wanted list.
In March of this year, he was detained in the Moscow region and, at the request of the Prosecutor General's Office of Kazakhstan, was extradited to his home country.
For the alleged offence, he faces a sentence of imprisonment for a term of 5 to 10 years with confiscation of property.
Earlier, Kazakh law enforcement agencies, with the assistance of the Embassy of Kazakhstan in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), extradited a man suspected of tax evasion amounting to 293 million tenge.