Decrypting string in Python encrypted in C# AES 256

Question

Data is being encrypted in C# and send to us, I need to write a Python code to decrypt it.

Here is the C# code for encryption:

public static string EncryptString(string key, string plainText)
        {
            byte[] iv = new byte[16];
            byte[] array;
            using (Aes aes = Aes.Create())
            {
                aes.Key = Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(key);
                aes.IV = iv;
                ICryptoTransform encryptor = aes.CreateEncryptor(aes.Key, aes.IV);
                using (MemoryStream memoryStream = new MemoryStream())
                {
                    using (CryptoStream cryptoStream = new CryptoStream((Stream)memoryStream, encryptor, CryptoStreamMode.Write))
                    {
                        using (StreamWriter streamWriter = new StreamWriter((Stream)cryptoStream))
                        {
                            streamWriter.Write(plainText);
                        }
                        array = memoryStream.ToArray();
                    }
                }
            }
            return Convert.ToBase64String(array);
        }

Here is how the decryption works in C#:

using System;
using System.Security.Cryptography;
using System.Text;
using System.IO;
                    
public class Program
{
    public static string DecryptString(string key, string text)
        {
            byte[] iv = new byte[16];
            byte[] buffer = Convert.FromBase64String(text);
            using (Aes aes = Aes.Create())
            {
                aes.Key = Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(key);
                aes.IV = iv;
                ICryptoTransform decryptor = aes.CreateDecryptor(aes.Key, aes.IV);
                using (MemoryStream memoryStream = new MemoryStream(buffer))
                {
                    using (CryptoStream cryptoStream = new CryptoStream((Stream)memoryStream, decryptor, CryptoStreamMode.Read))
                    {
                        using (StreamReader streamReader = new StreamReader((Stream)cryptoStream))
                        {
                            return streamReader.ReadToEnd();
                        }
                    }
                }
            }
        }
    
    
    
    public static void Main()
    {
        Console.WriteLine(DecryptString("b14ca5898a4e4133bbce2ea2315a1916","Qri3376EFpjxJdBBauGZLg=="));
    }
}

Now I'm trying to decrypt it using Cryptodome, but it doesn't seem to work, either due to incorrect padding, or something else. Here is my Python code for testing purposes:

import hashlib
from Cryptodome.Cipher import AES
import base64
from Crypto import Random
import Crypto.Util.Padding as padding


password = base64.b64decode('somekey') # changed

iv = Random.new().read(16) # Because C# seems to be using Random as well
# print(iv)
aes = AES.new(password, AES.MODE_CBC, iv)
text = 'Qri3376EFpjxJdBBauGZLg==' # It should be '1'
text = base64.b64decode(text)
print(text)
print(aes.decrypt(text))
print(aes.decrypt(text).decode("UTF-16"))

This seemingly works, but returns gibberish:

b'B\xb8\xb7\xdf\xbe\x84\x16\x98\xf1%\xd0Aj\xe1\x99.' b'\x17\xcd5a\x1b-.\xb4h{\x9a\xb2}{R\xf7' 횥濢빝봅ի䁁ẹ

And, if changed to this, as suggested in similar threads:

decryptedPadded = aes.decrypt(text)
decrypted = padding.unpad(decryptedPadded, 16)
print(decrypted.decode('utf-16'))

it returns:

ValueError: Padding is incorrect.

Not sure what to do next