The Belarusian Interior Ministry has not received a request to extradite ousted Kyrgyz president Kurmanbek Bakiyev, the interior minister said on Thursday.
"I can confirm that the Belarusian Interior Ministry has so far not received [an extradition] request, including from Interpol," Interior Minister Anatoly Kuleshov said.
Kyrgyzstan's interim government on Tuesday stripped ousted Kurmanbek Bakiyev of presidential immunity and instructed the country's top prosecutors to have him extradited to the republic to face charges in his involvement in the killing of civilians during the April riots.
Bakiyev was officially charged in absentia on April 27 of organizing murders and abuse of power in the ex-Soviet Central Asian republic.
The ousted Kyrgyz leader, who fled the Central Asian republic amid bloody unrest in early April that left over 80 dead and is currently taking refuge in Belarus, has refused to resign.
Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko said on Tuesday he had no intentions of handing Bakiyev over to the Kyrgyz interim government.
The Kyrgyz interim government recently offered rewards of up to $100,000 for information leading to the capture of ex-officials, including relatives of deposed president Bakiyev.
The Kyrgyz special forces have so far detained around 20 supporters of Bakiyev, including ex-defense minister Baktybek Kalyev and the ex-head of the president's administration, Kanybek Zhoroyev.
Bakiyev's family members are also being sought by the country's special forces. Bakiyev's two sons and six brothers are members of the clan that became powerful under his rule.
The Kyrgyz interim national security chief, Keneshbek Dushebayev, said two of brothers, Ahmad and Zhanybek (former head of state security) were difficult to locate because they are "experienced" in the work of the security forces.
He said they are assumed to be moving between Kyrgyzstan and the neighboring central Asian republics of Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan.
The other four brothers are in Turkey and somewhere in Europe, Dushebayev said.
Bakiyev's son, Marat, who was deputy head of the national security agency, fled to Kazakhstan, while the younger son Maxim, former head of the state investment authority, who was touted as his father's successor, has taken refuge in a Baltic state, he said.
Interpol has included Maxim Bakiyev in its international wanted list, which was published on Thursday.
MINSK, May 6 (RIA Novosti)
