Baku: The citizen of Uzbekistan who was put on the wanted list was extradited by Azerbaijan, Prosecutor General’s Office told APA. Cooperation with the Prosecutor General’s Office of the Republic of Uzbekistan in the field of combating crime is successfully continuing. The request of the Prosecutor General’s Office of that state for the extradition of Yusupov Amonbek Abdulkhakovich, a citizen of the Republic of Uzbekistan, born in 1982, for criminal liability, was granted by the Prosecutor General’s Office of the Republic of Azerbaijan.
According to Azeri-Press news agency, A.A. Yusupov, who was accused of committing the crime of insulting the honor and dignity of the President in Uzbekistan and put on the interstate wanted list, was identified and detained in Azerbaijan in April of this year, and a preventive measure of arrest was chosen for him.
In accordance with the Convention “On Legal Aid and Legal Relations in Civil, Family and Criminal Matters” dated 07.10.2002, a decision was made to extradite the accused, and the latter was transferred to the competent authority of the Republic of Uzbekistan, accompanied by a special convoy of the Penitentiary Service of the Ministry of Justice.