Arka News Agency, Armenia
Oct 26 2006
RA GENERAL PROSECUTOR AND U.S. FBI ATTACHE DISCUSS ISSUES OF
COOPERATION BETWEEN LAWFUL BODIES OF ARMENIA AND USA
YEREVAN, October 26. /ARKA/. General Prosecutor of Armenia Aghvan
Hovsepyan and the U.S. FBI Attache Mark Kirby discussed issues of
cooperation between the lawful bodies of Armenia and the USA.
On Thursday Press-Secretary of the RA General Prosecutor’s Office
Sona Truzyan informed ARKA News Agency that during the meeting Kirby
had expressed gratitude to Hovsepyan for the rendered assistance in
disclosing crimes.
Kirby handed in to Hovsepyan an official letter of the FBI Director
Robert Muller, in which FBI expresses gratefulness to the RA General
Prosecutor’s Office for its special assistance to the U.S. Embassy in
Armenia and FBI Legal Affairs Office.
The letter says that we have to follow the spirit of cooperation,
demonstrated in the course of the preliminary investigation of the
criminal case of Arthur Khanzadyan. It also says that the fact that
the national security service revealed the place where Khanzadyan
hided and arrested himà, as well as the investigation pursued by the
Armenian collaborators in a short period of time, shows that
criminals can evade the justice neither in USA nor in Armenia.
In that connection Kirby read gratifying diplomas of Muller for the
effective support rendered by the Armenian officers in investigation
of the criminal case of Arthur Khanzadyan. The diplomas are addressed
to the Heads of the International Legal Affairs Department of the RA
State General Prosecutor’s Office Nelli Harutyunyan, as well as to
other two representatives of the Office Bagrat Petrosyan and Gevorg
Yeremyan.
On August 25, 2006, a citizen of Armenia Arthur Khanzadyan was
sentenced by an Armenian court to 10-year imprisonment for murdering
his girlfriend – citizen of USA of Armenian origin, in USA in
September 2005.
In 2006, he was found in Armenia and arrested by officers of the
National Security Service. S.P. –0–