Kyrgyzstan

The provisional custodial measure ordered by the Court of Appeal following an extradition request from a foreign State and a reasoned request by the Minister of Justice must be revoked if, within 40 days, the extradition request and supporting documents have not been received by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs or the Ministry of Justice. It is not required that, within the same time limit, such documentation be also transmitted to the judicial authority. In the present case, the extradition documentation had been received by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs when it was delivered to the Italian Embassy in Astana (Kazakhstan), whose jurisdiction also extends to the Kyrgyz Republic, in the absence of dedicated diplomatic missions handling exclusively Italian–Kyrgyz bilateral relations.