In Almaty, an accountant stole $230,000 from a company and fled to Greece

Employees of the Prosecutor General's Office and Interpol of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, with the assistance of the Kazakh embassy in Greece, extradited a Kazakh citizen suspected of large-scale fraud, reports Todayinfo.kz news agency. She is suspected that in 2021, while working as an accountant at a transport company in Almaty, under the pretext of storing in a bank safe deposit box, she took $230,000 from her boss and embezzled them. After committing the crime, she went into hiding and was placed on the international wanted list. In June 2024, she was detained in Greece and extradited at the request of the Prosecutor General's Office of the Republic of Kazakhstan.

"Due to the lack of direct air service between Kazakhstan and Greece, the Embassy of Kazakhstan in Serbia assisted in organizing transit transportation through Serbia. Currently, the suspect has been placed in a pre-trial detention center in Astana," the Prosecutor General's Office said in a statement.

The crime she is charged with carries a penalty of up to ten years in prison with confiscation of property and deprivation of the right to hold certain positions or engage in certain activities for up to ten years.