Kazakhstan students accused of fraud in U.S. left the country

Kazakhstan students accused of fraud in the U.S. have left the country, Tengrinews.kz reports citing official representative of Kazakhstan Foreign Ministry. “According to the prosecutors of Manhattan, the majority of the students left the United States after committing the crime. In this relation they were accused durante absentia. The persons named by Manhattan prosecutors were not registered with our consulate, that’s why we have no information on their current whereabouts and we cannot render them legal and other support,” Altai Abibullayev said on April 24. According to the official representative, Kazakhstan Foreign Ministry sent a note to New York representative office of the U.S. Department of State asking to provide additional information about the accused Kazakhstan citizens. Earlier Tengrinews.kz English reported that 11 Kazakhstan students got involved in fraud in the U.S. They were laundering money illegally received by Russian citizen Pyotr Murmylyuk from trustful Americans. By Assel Satayeva