MOSCOW. March 25 (Interfax) - Seventy-two defendants were extradited to Russia in 2018, according to the head of the Russian National Central Bureau of Interpol, Police Maj. Gen. Alexander Prokopchuk.
"Thanks to using Interpol channels, about 150 defendants were detained in foreign countries at our requests last year, and 72 detainees were extradited to Russia for being prosecuted," Prokopchuk told Interfax.
In 2018, "non-CIS countries extradited five suspected terrorists, who were earlier detained at the Bureau's request, to Russia," among them the first person ever extradited from Afghanistan, he said.