Azerbaijan issued to Uzbekistan a citizen of this country on the basis of the official request of Tashkent. According to Report with reference to the Prosecutor General of Azerbaijan, the Prosecutor General of Uzbekistan filed a request for the issuance of 62-year-old Rzayev Akif Imran Oglu, detained in Azerbaijan in January of this year. A measure of restraint in the form of arrest was chosen against him.
Rzaev is accused of fraud, impaired with causing damage on an especially large scale (paragraph “A” of part 4 of Article 168 of the Criminal Code of Uzbekistan). The request of Uzbekistan was satisfied with the Prosecutor General of Azerbaijan.
The decision on extradition was made on the basis of the Convention “On Legal Assistance and Legal Relations in Civil, Family and Criminal Affairs” of October 7, 2002. Akif Rzaev was transferred to representatives of the competent authority of Uzbekistan, accompanied by a special convoy of the penitentiary service of the Ministry of Justice.
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