7 KG OF HEROIN BROUGHT TO ARMENIA VIA ARMENIAN-TURKISH BORDER

/PanARMENIAN.Net/
11.02.2010 18:18 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ RA Prosecutor General’s Office and the RA Police
revealed cases of illicit trafficking in narcotic drugs (opium
and heroin) of big amounts. On February 8, based on data obtained
in preliminary investigation an Iranian citizen was detained on
the Ashtarak-Yerevan highway who had 4750 grams of opium in his
car. The same day a citizen of Russia Hovhannes Davtyan was arrested,
7 kilograms of heroin as found in his car. The confiscated heroin was
smuggled into Armenia – across the closed Armenian-Turkish border. The
market price of drugs made USD 2 million, press office of the General
Prosecutor’s office reported.