ARMENIANS ARRESTED WHILE TRYING TO SMUGGLE RADIOACTIVE MATERIAL TO TURKEY
ARMENPRESS
Oct 26, 2007
YEREVAN, OCTOBER 26, ARMENPRESS: Georgian border guards have detained
four citizens of Armenia as they were trying to smuggle into Turkey
radioactive material, Georgia’s border police told Novosti-Georgia
news agency.
The Armenians were arrested on Georgian-Turkish border when trying to
go through Sarpi border check point. Georgian border guards found on
one of them 2.04 grams of a radioactive material known as ‘lovresium.’
Georgian authorities said the Armenians were arrested on October
24. They refused to reveal the Armenians’ names ‘not to damage the
investigation." No other details are available.
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
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