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Tengrinews.kz – Kazakhstan and Morocco will begin exchanging convicted individuals to allow them to serve their sentences in their home countries. Deputies of the Mazhilis today adopted the corresponding law in its second reading.
The agreement stipulates that both sides must, upon request, extradite individuals convicted of crimes punishable by at least one year of imprisonment. It also covers the extradition of fugitives avoiding punishment, provided their sentence is no less than six months, Deputy Prosecutor General Galymzhan Koigeldiev told the Mazhilis.
“If one of our citizens is convicted of a crime in Morocco, we can bring them back to Kazakhstan under this agreement. (…) In the past five years alone, 160 Kazakh citizens have been transferred from other countries back to Kazakhstan,” he said.
The convicted person must be a citizen of Kazakhstan or Morocco, consent to voluntary repatriation, and be convicted for an act that is considered a crime in both countries.
There are also two grounds for refusal to transfer a convicted person to Morocco:
- If the crime is of a political nature;
- If the crime is punishable by the death penalty (Kazakhstan has abolished capital punishment).
