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An Uzbek citizen suspected of involvement in a transnational organised criminal group has been extradited from Georgia to Kazakhstan, the Kazakhstani Prosecutor General’s Office announced. The woman had been placed on an international wanted list and was detained in Georgia in July of this year.
According to investigators, she worked alongside members of an organised criminal group to collect payments from individuals who advertise prostitution and other sexual services through profiles on the website Kyzdar.net. By processing those payments, she and her associates helped promote and publicise the services offered through the platform, investigators allege.
Under the investigation’s working theory, group members retained a share of the incoming funds as commission and transferred the remainder to the site’s organisers, sustaining what prosecutors describe as a procuring scheme. The suspect has been placed in a pre-trial detention facility. If convicted, she faces up to ten years’ imprisonment with confiscation of assets.
A site with a long legal history
Kyzdar.net has operated since 2011. In March 2023, law-enforcement agencies detained eleven senior managers connected to the platform. That case was subsequently closed by the Interior Ministry in September 2024, when officials stated that blocking the site was not possible because it was hosted on servers belonging to United States internet providers.
The investigation was revived in June 2026, when the alleged organisers of the site were arrested in Almaty. Investigators assessed their unlawful income at two billion tenge. Searches linked to the suspects’ purported owners in Almaty and the surrounding region uncovered eight registered companies operating in small and medium business, five apartments, six commercial premises, six cottages, ten land plots, six parking spaces and eleven high-value vehicles.
Some individuals in the case have already received custodial sentences. The extradition of the Uzbek national adds an international dimension to proceedings that Kazakhstani prosecutors are continuing to pursue.