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RUSSIA EXTRADITES ARMENIAN SUSPECTED OF MURDER TO BELGIUM
Interfax
Feb 15 2012
Russia
Russia has extradited an Armenian citizen serving a prison sentence
for a murder in Russia and armed robbery in Germany, to Belgium on
charges of committing a similar crime in that country.
"Officials from the Russian Interior Ministry's National Central Bureau
of Interpol ensured extradition to Belgium of Armenian citizen Tigran
Arutyunian today," the bureau press service told Interfax.
Russian law enforcement agencies declared Arutyunian wanted in 1996
on suspicion of committing a murder at a Volgograd bar, it said. The
man was put on the international wanted list in 2001 and was arrested
in Germany for armed robbery in 2002.
"He was extradited to Russia and convicted by a district court
in Volgograd in 2006. Then Belgian law enforcement declared him
internationally wanted in 2010 on charges of committing a murder on
Belgian territory in 2000," it said.
The Volgograd department of the Federal Security Service (FSB) told
Interfax about Arutyunian's detention in April 2011.
The press service said Arutyunian was an active member of an
organized criminal group acting in Western Europe and was suspected
of involvement in several murders. "Four passports issued in different
names were seized from Arutyunian during his detention," it said.
Interfax
Feb 15 2012
Russia
Russia has extradited an Armenian citizen serving a prison sentence
for a murder in Russia and armed robbery in Germany, to Belgium on
charges of committing a similar crime in that country.
"Officials from the Russian Interior Ministry's National Central Bureau
of Interpol ensured extradition to Belgium of Armenian citizen Tigran
Arutyunian today," the bureau press service told Interfax.
Russian law enforcement agencies declared Arutyunian wanted in 1996
on suspicion of committing a murder at a Volgograd bar, it said. The
man was put on the international wanted list in 2001 and was arrested
in Germany for armed robbery in 2002.
"He was extradited to Russia and convicted by a district court
in Volgograd in 2006. Then Belgian law enforcement declared him
internationally wanted in 2010 on charges of committing a murder on
Belgian territory in 2000," it said.
The Volgograd department of the Federal Security Service (FSB) told
Interfax about Arutyunian's detention in April 2011.
The press service said Arutyunian was an active member of an
organized criminal group acting in Western Europe and was suspected
of involvement in several murders. "Four passports issued in different
names were seized from Arutyunian during his detention," it said.