NARCOTICS ARE BROUGHT TO ARMENIA FROM IRAN, TURKEY, FRANCE AND RUSSIA – POLICE

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June 26, 2012 | 12:58

YEREVAN.- Narcotics are brought to Armenia mainly from Iran, Turkey,
France and Russia, police representatives told reporters on Tuesday.

Serob Harutunyan, head of department on fight against organized
crime at Armenia’s police, said opium is brought from Iran, heroine –
from Iran and Turkey, while amphetamine and metadoxil – from Russia
and France.

In his turn Grigor Malentsyan, head of the South Caucasus Borders
Complex Management Program, said opium dugs are grown in Afghanistan
and Myanmar and are transported by sea, while synthetic drugs are
manufactured in any country, even in Armenia.

Harutunyan said a group engaged in producing synthetic drugs was
discovered in Armenia several years ago.

“Police found sixty kilos of amphetamine,” he said adding that
the number of those using cannabis increased as well, reaching 697
last year.

The 26th of June is marked as International Day Against Drug Abuse
and Illicit Trafficking.

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress