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Kyrgyzstan again asks Russia to extradite ex-president's son

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BISHKEK, September 29 (RIA Novosti) - Kyrgyz prosecutors will send a repeat request to Russia for the extradition of ousted president Askar Akayev's son, who faces embezzlement charges, the Central Asian country's prosecutor general said on Monday.

Aidar Akayev, who fled to Russia with his father after the ex-leader's deposition in 2005 during the 'tulip revolution', now faces five cases of embezzling a total of $4.5 million. The Kyrgyz Prosecutor General's Office had previously submitted three requests for his extradition, which were rejected by Russian prosecutors without explanations.

"The convention in effect between Russia and Kyrgyzstan entitles Russia not to explain its reasons," Elmurza Satybaldiyev said.

Kyrgyz law enforcers have so far launched 106 criminal cases against Akayev's relatives and associates, but no criminal case has yet been filed against the former leader himself.

The only member of the Akayev family to have returned to the country since the 2005 mass riots that forced a change of government is his daughter Bermet, 35, who was banned in late April from running in a parliamentary by-election in the northern Kemin province, on the grounds that she had spent the past two years outside Kyrgyzstan.

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