Kazakh national extradited from Thailand
12:56, 6 August 2016
ASTANA. KAZINFORM The Prosecutor General's Office and the State Revenue Committee of Kazakhstan together with the Kazakh Embassy in Thailand extradited on Friday a national of Kazakhstan for criminal prosecution.
36-year-old Marat Zhupkaziyev was wanted by the Department of State Revenue of South Kazakhstan region for committing economic crimes. He is accused of creating a number of pseudo-enterprises as part of an organized group and assisting in tax evasion, which caused a large damage to the state to the amount of over 4bn tenge.
Zhupkaziyev was placed into a pre-trial detention facility of Almaty city, Kazinform refers to the press service of the Kazakhstan Prosecutor General's Office.