Interpol is studying the legal basis of the international arrest warrant of former Kyrgyz President Kurmanbek Bakiyev, the Kyrgyz Interpol bureau said in an official statement on Wednesday.
The interim government, who took power amid violent unrest in early April, accuses the ousted president of ordering police to open fire at civilians during riots in the Kyrgyz capital of Bishkek, in which more than 80 people died.
"According to the department on rights issues of Interpol's Secretary General, the given request is under legal study on its concurrence to Interpol's rules and constitution. The bureau of legal issues will announce the results of the study as soon as the Secretary General makes a decision after investigating the information in the request," the statement said.
Russian media reported earlier that Interpol had not received a request for the arrest of deposed Kyrgyz President Bakiyev. Kyrgyzstan's Interior Ministry has denied the Russian media reports.
Bakiyev has taken refuge in Belrarus and the Kyrgyz interim government has demanded his extradition and launched criminal proceedings against him, blaming him and his relatives for the deaths of dozens people shot by security forces during the uprisings.
The former Kyrgyz leader told a news conference in Minsk on Monday that the accusations against him and his family were "groundless."
The Belarusian Prosecutor General's Office rejected the extradition request earlier on Tuesday.
The Kyrgyz provisional government will charge the country's ex-president's son, Maxim, with terrorism and seek his extradition from Britain on these grounds, the country's interim leader said on Tuesday.
Maxim Bakiyev, who is on the Interpol wanted list, is also suspected of embezzling millions of dollars of a loan from Russia. According to the Kyrgyz Prosecutor's General's Office, he placed $35 million of a $300 million loan from Russia into his private bank accounts while in office.
Maxim Bakiyev was detained late on Monday at Farnborough airport in southern England.
The interim government suspects him of organizing and financing deadly clashes in the country's two southern cities of Osh and Jalal-Abad, which left at least 176 people dead and over 1,800 injured.
BISHKEK, June 16 (RIA Novosti)
