According to Deputy Prosecutor General Ulan Bayzhanov, Kazakhstan is going to carefully review requests from Russia and the U.S. which both want the country to extradite Nikita Kislitsyn, head of the network security department in F.A.C.C.T. (formerly Group-IB).
On June 28, 2023, several Russian media outlets reported that Kislitsyn was detained in Kazakhstan, citing the F.A.C.C.T.’s press service. Later, Kazakhstani authorities confirmed that the IT specialist was detained on June 22 due to some accusations related to his previous job as a journalist and independent researcher ten years ago. Currently, Kislitsyn is in custody while law enforcement officials «have been...