Economic and drug-related crime on the rise

Filed under: Society — Posted by Matt on October 29th

Mediamax reports (Via Groong) on the rise of economic and drug-related crime. While the number of reported crimes dropped by 4%, those involving drugs rose by over 30%.

In the course of the fight against drug trafficking, 339 drug-related
crimes were registered in January-September 2004, which is 102 cases
more than in the same period of last year. A total of 12,782 kg of
drugs were seized.

The NationMaster website has a detailed profile of crime and criminals in Armenia.

According to the site, there are:

2,866 prisoners in Armenia
2% of these are female
127 murders

All this information is from 2000.

1 Comment

  1. Two Men Shot Dead In Downtown Yerevan
    http://www.armenialiberty.org/armeniareport/report/en/2004/10/1D62EF09-A3F0-4ECC-A7D9-7795C0E40DEB.ASP

    Comment by Anonymous — 10/30/2004 @ 2:31 am

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