DUSHANBE, January 16, Asia-Plus — Russia last year extradited 19 citizens of Tajikistan at the request of Tajik law enforcement authorities, Matluba Abdulloyeva, chairperson of the department for international matters of the Prosecutor-General’s Office, announced at a news conference in Dushanbe on January 15.
According to her, Tajikistan, for its part, in 2006 extradited to Russia a woman, Russian citizen, wanted by Russian police on suspicion of having committed a number of crimes in the Russian Federation.
Abdulloyeva noted that Tajik Prosecutor-General’s Office last year received 81 extradition requests from the CIS states. “Of them, 19 requests have been satisfied,” Abdulloyeva said.
