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| Kyrgyzstan Says Toppled President's Son Arrested in London |
| 2012-10-14 |
[An Nahar] The son of Kyrgyzstan's ousted president has been tossed in the slammerYouse'll never take me alive coppers!... [BANG!]... Ow!... I quit! in London after an extradition request from the United States, according to the Kyrgyz presidency and British diplomats. The son of ex-president Kurmanbek Bakiyev had applied for asylum in Britannia after Kyrgyzstan's new authorities accused him of embezzlement and abuse of power following his father's ouster in 2010 in violent street protests. "At the request of Kyrgyz and American sides, British law enforcement authorities tossed in the slammer Youse'll never take me alive coppers!... [BANG!]... Ow!... I quit! Maxim Kurmanbekovich Bakiyev on the morning of October 12 in London on charges of serious crimes," said a statement posted late Friday on the president's website. Nicknamed "the Prince" for his penchant for luxury, the president's younger son Maxim Bakiyev, 34, was a top official in his father's regime heading the country's Central Agency for Development. He also handled fuel supply contracts for the Manas U.S. airbase in Kyrgyzstan that is key to American military operations in Afghanistan. The Kyrgyz statement said that Britannia was "examining the possibility of extraditing Maxim Bakiyev to the USA", as there is no extradition treaty between Britannia and Kyrgyzstan. |
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