Former BTA bank's manager to be extradited to Kazakhstan

Veronika Efimova, a former manager of the Kazakh BTA bank, who is now in Russia, will soon be extradited to Kazakhstan.

Efimova is accused of embezzlement. According to investigators she helped former head of the bank Mukhtar Ablyazov to embezzle the bank's funds. A Kazakh court ordered Efimova's arrest on March 11, 2009. 

She was detained in Moscow on July 3, 2009.