MOSCOW, August 1 (AVN) - The CIS bureau on co-ordination of combating organised crime and other dangerous crimes co-operated together with 98 CIS police groups in 2001, Tlegen Suntayev, first deputy head of the bureau, told the Military News Agency on Wednesday.
As a result 102 grievous and very grievous crimes were detected as well as 26 crimes from the past several years.
The main examples of the bureau activities are the operations carried out by a group of Azerbaijani Interior Ministry criminal investigation department and a police group of the town of Lyubertsy, Moscow region, aimed at detaining members of organised criminal formation Mamedov, Sadygov and Ibragimov who were searched around the world for their criminal activities. During the detaining policemen confiscated automatic guns and cartridges to them. The detained were sent to Azerbaijan.
The unified criminal investigation group of Armenia and main police department of Russia's Nizhny Novgorod region together with the bureau found and detained in the Voskresenskoye village Armenian citizen Petrosyan who was searched in the world for his criminal activities as well. The unified group of criminal investigation committees of the Belarussian and Russian Interior Ministry detected five cases of embezzlement and power abuse by Lobanov, former president of the Vitebsk-based Lokomotiv football club.
According to Suntayev, a total of 1,374 people searched around the world were found in the CIS with the help of the bureau.
The bureau was established in September 1993 at the decision of the CIS Governments Leaders Council. This is the permanently operating body which work is co-ordinated by the CIS Interior Ministers Council. The bureau includes administration and envoys of the CIS Interior Ministries. It is located in Moscow and its personnel is 30 people.