Identifier
Created
Classification
Origin
04YEREVAN2222
2004-10-07 03:20:00
UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY
Embassy Yerevan
Cable title:  

POLICE DETAIN TWO ON SUSPICION OF TRAFFICKING

Tags:  PGOV PREL KCRM AM KTIP 
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UNCLAS YEREVAN 002222 

SIPDIS

SENSITIVE

DEPT FOR G/TIP, DRL AND EUR/CACEN

E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: PGOV PREL KCRM AM KTIP
SUBJECT: POLICE DETAIN TWO ON SUSPICION OF TRAFFICKING


UNCLAS YEREVAN 002222

SIPDIS

SENSITIVE

DEPT FOR G/TIP, DRL AND EUR/CACEN

E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: PGOV PREL KCRM AM KTIP
SUBJECT: POLICE DETAIN TWO ON SUSPICION OF TRAFFICKING



1. (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Please protect
accordingly.

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POLICE ARRESTING ALLEGED TRAFFICKERS
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2. (SBU) Police detained Tigran Rushanyan (nickname -
Tigran the Great) on suspicion of trafficking October
4, 2004 at Yerevan's Zvartnots Airport. Press reports
claimed that he had recruited and sent eleven women to
Turkey to engage in prostitution, charging each of them
USD 150. On the same day, police detained 34-year-old
Siranush M. on the same suspicion. According to the
press this woman recruited and sent prostitutes to the
United Arab Emirates during February and March of 2004,
allegedly making a profit of USD 1000. The
Prosecutor's Office of Yerevan's Malatia-Sebastia
region, responsible for both cases, declined to provide
additional information on the cases, noting they are
still under investigation.

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COMMENT: PUBLIC AWARENESS INCREASING
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3. (SBU) Press reports, while undoubtedly playing on
the sensational aspects of these cases, are nonetheless
helping to improve public awareness of the problem of
trafficking.
RICHTER