Cooperation with the Prosecutor General’s Office of the Republic of Turkmenistan in the field of combating crime continues successfully.
This was reported to elchi by the Press Service of the Prosecutor General’s Office.
According to the information, the request of the Prosecutor General’s Office of Turkmenistan for the extradition of Turkmenistan citizen Dovletgeldi Nursakhedovich Bashimov, born in 1979, for the purpose of bringing him to criminal responsibility, was granted by the Prosecutor General’s Office of the Republic of Azerbaijan.
Thus, Dovletgeldi Bashimov, who was wanted internationally for being accused of committing crimes related to the illegal acquisition, storage, and transportation of potent substances that are not narcotic drugs or psychotropic substances by a group of persons acting in prior collusion in Turkmenistan, was identified and detained in Azerbaijan in March 2026, and a preventive measure in the form of detention was chosen against him.
In accordance with the requirements of the Convention on Legal Assistance and Legal Relations in Civil, Family, and Criminal Matters dated January 22, 1993, a decision was made to extradite the accused person, and he was handed over to the competent authority of Turkmenistan accompanied by a special convoy of the Penitentiary Service of the Ministry of Justice of the Republic of Azerbaijan.