Interpol puts 431 Armenian citizens on “wanted” list

Mediamax news agency
11 May 05

YEREVAN

Four hundred and thirty one Armenian citizens are on Interpol’s wanted
list for grave crimes, Mediamax quoted the head of the national
Interpol bureau in Armenia, Vardan Yegiazaryan, as telling a briefing
in Yerevan today.

He noted that thanks to cooperation among member countries of Interpol
265 people had been extradited to Armenia in the period between 1998
and 2004.

The international search for former Armenian Foreign Minister Vano
Siradegyan [according to our records, former Interior Minister] has
not yielded any results, Vardan Yegiazaryan said.

He said that within the framework of Vano Siradegyan’s search case the
bureau receives a lot of information, which after checking turns out
to be false, Mediamax reported.

Yegiazaryan pointed out that “as far as we are concerned Vano
Siradegyan is an ordinary criminal and we do not differentiate this
case from the others”.

Armenian former Interior Minister Vano Siradegyan was put on the
international wanted list in 2000 for masterminding a number of
serious crimes, in particular, contract murders.