KIEV, Oct. 10 - Oleksandr Shakhov, who is suspected of organizing the Elita-Center fraud on Kiev's real estate market, has been extradited from Switzerland to Ukraine.

An airplane carrying Shakhov arrived at Boryspil Airport at about 4 p.m. on Thursday, Interfax-Ukraine learned from a police source.

On Nov. 1, 2007, a man named Oleksandr Volkonsky (whose real name turned out to be Oleksandr Shakhov, born in Russia in 1971) was detained in Switzerland. He is accused of organizing the Elita-Center fraud that hit the real estate market in Kiev in 2006.