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    RIA Novosti
    July 2, 2004

    RUSSIAN, ARMENIAN LAW ENFORCERS STEP UP COOPERATION


    YEREVAN, July 2 (RIA Novosti) - The Russian Interior Ministry and
    Armenia's Police Department will hold a meeting in Yerevan on Friday.
    Russian Interior Minister Rashid Nurgaliyev and Armenian police
    executive Aik Arutyunyan and other senior officials of the above
    agencies are expected to take part in the meeting.

    The conferees will discuss issues of cooperation against organised
    crime and efforts to decriminalise their economies.

    The law enforcement agencies' joint activities fall within the
    jurisdiction of a series of bilateral and multilateral inter-government
    agreements, 16 inter-department agreements dealing with various areas
    of police activity, which were signed at the meetings of the Council of
    Interior Ministers of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS).

    Besides, the conferees will discuss efforts against the organised
    international criminal groups and the search for their leaders. Drug
    and human trafficking will also be central at the meeting.

    Mr Nurgaliyev and Mr Arutyunyan have noted the importance of more
    intensive information exchanges between their agencies.

    The two countries' law enforcement agencies regularly conduct search
    and preventive operations. Moscow police, for example, have uncovered a
    criminal group that comprised Russian and Armenian nationals who
    produced counterfeit cognac Ararat, reports the Russian Interior
    Ministry. Besides, Russian police exposed a group of Armenians who
    counterfeited Russian roubles.

    254 members and 45 leaders of organised criminal groups largely
    composed of Armenian nationals have been brought to trial and 165
    relevant criminal cases have been opened, according to the ministry.

    Moscow police have also detained Martirosyan, an Armenian national
    wanted in his republic for large-scale embezzlement and fraud.
    Martirosyan has already been extradited to Armenia.
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