ARMENIANS ARRESTED FOR SELLING RADIOACTIVE STRONTIUM
Agence France Presse
November 11, 2011 Friday 12:15 PM GMT
Armenia’s security services said Friday that they had arrested four
men for selling radioactive strontium to a foreign buyer.
The four Armenian citizens were detained “at the moment of handing
over radioactive strontium to a foreigner,” the National Security
Service said in a brief statement without specifying the nationality
or identity of the alleged foreign buyer.
They have been charged with the illegal possession and sale of
radioactive materials, the statement said.
The case drew fresh attention to concerns that unsecured nuclear
materials around the former Soviet Union could be sold to violent
extremists.
Last year three Armenians were arrested for allegedly smuggling
enriched uranium into neighbouring Georgia, which they tried to sell
to an undercover officer posing as a buyer for Islamic radicals.
Georgian police in 2010 also arrested four people for allegedly trying
to sell another radioactive substance, cesium-137.
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
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