US embassy cable - 04YEREVAN2222

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POLICE DETAIN TWO ON SUSPICION OF TRAFFICKING

Identifier: 04YEREVAN2222
Wikileaks: View 04YEREVAN2222 at Wikileaks.org
Origin: Embassy Yerevan
Created: 2004-10-07 03:20:00
Classification: UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY
Tags: PGOV PREL KCRM AM KTIP
Redacted: This cable was not redacted by Wikileaks.
This record is a partial extract of the original cable. The full text of the original cable is not available.

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 

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