Tashkent, Uzbekistan (UzDaily.com) — A citizen of Uzbekistan, accused of large-scale fraud, has been extradited from Russia to Kazakhstan. The press service of the General Prosecutor’s Office of Kazakhstan reported this.

According to the investigation, from 2005 to 2007, the suspect worked as an accountant at a construction company in Almaty.

She accepted payments from participants of shared construction and issued fictitious receipts for cash transactions, which were not reflected in the official accounting records. The fraudulent actions were related to an unfinished residential complex under construction.

As a result of her criminal actions, along with the involvement of other accomplices, more than 80 residents of Almaty were defrauded, with the total damage exceeding 3.7 billion tenge (over US$7 million).

One accomplice has already been sentenced, but the suspect fled after committing the crime and was placed on an international wanted list.

She was arrested in the Krasnodar region of the Russian Federation and subsequently extradited to Kazakhstan, where she was placed in a detention center.

Under the law, she faces a prison sentence of five to ten years with confiscation of property.